Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b

> At 21:54 21-08-00, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > I can see your point here, even though I don't think it's likely to > > > happen. Sites like phpbuilder.com, zend.com and weberdev.com aren't > > likely > > > to ever become members only. As far as reliability goes, they're much > > more > > > reliable than php.net :) > > > >Uh, phpbuilder didn't have any backups and just lost everything. That's > >not very reliable. I talked to Tim about this and he is fixing the > >situation, but that was a pretty bad example you chose. And php.net has > >been pretty stable lately. zend.com was down a couple of weeks ago > >because you guys were testing something and it was spewing errors. I > >don't see php.net being any less reliable than anyof the other sites out > >there. > > zend.com was down for a total of approximately 4 hours (combined) since > it's launch, disregarding networking problems of backbone providers - I > have no idea where you took the 'couple of weeks' figure from. php.net had > a couple of months when it was dying sporadically, and generally, it has > much less maintenance than what zend.com or weberdev.com have (which is > natural, considering it's a free server). It has been more reliable since > it was replaced, though. "zend.com was down a couple of weeks ago" I did not say it was down for a couple of weeks. -Rasmus