====== Website Maintenance ======

Hi, the website will be under maintenance from time to time, so don't be surprised if it is temporarily unavailable. Actually, there are some performance problems I would like to investigate: pages are served slowly, aren't they? e.g. this blog is served in about 2 seconds to ''wget'' but noticeably more when served to graphical browsers like Firefox or Safari. There are only 1200 unique visitors per day on this site, overall. So, for something like one visitor per minute, it's highly unlikely that the server, based on a VIA C7 @ 2 GHz, couldn't cope with that tiny load.

Further experiments show that a static version of the [[en:projects:nspluginwrapper]] page can be served under 0.30 second vs 1.5 second for the dynamic page. I have installed PHP e-Accelerator and all pages are even cached internally by Dokuwiki, so XHTML is normally served directly instead of parsing the wiki pages again. I don't know yet what more could I do since I don't really grok PHP.

BTW, [[http://www.dedibox.fr|Dedibox]] announced newer servers (64-bit Celeron based on the Core 2 architecture, 2 GB of memory, etc.) for the same price level, so I will probably upgrade unless the "old-time users" are rewarded with a cheaper subscription, as this is currently rumored. ;-)

**Note:** I have upgraded to Dokuwiki 2007-06-26b, please tell me if you notice any problem. At least, the plugins upgrade also brought in some fixes to ToC generation on the front page. Some day, if I ever get more time, I will probably switch to Drupal.

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