After 13 years the Debian-Administration website will go read-only at the end of the month. Then later in the year it will transform it into a solely static-site so that the articles, weblogs, and associated comments are not lost - and they can be served via single server or two. Mostly this is happening due to lack of new content being added and folks posting more elsewhere.
https://debian-administration.org/article/730/This_site_is_going_to_go_read-only
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:31AM (3 children)
The announcement says
10+ servers?! What the fuck?! Why the hell does a simple site like that need that many servers?! I can understand two or three for some redundancy, but 10+?! A couple of $5/month VPS instances would probably be more than sufficient for a site as basic as that one.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @05:35AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:09PM
Why not? Because at most all they really need is:
Given how little traffic they probably get, and how non-critical this site is, they could probably get away with:
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday September 16 2017, @12:09PM
Perhaps more importantly, how the hell does a site that isn't being actively used much need 10+ servers?
Either no one is using it so it doesn't matter much if it goes away, _or_ it needs a lot of servers. Not both.