#23953 [Opn]: es.php.net is so slow it is unusable

ID: 23953 User updated by: pete at foxcreekleather dot com Reported By: pete at foxcreekleather dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: NA PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: I definitely agree with the deactivate the mirror comment. Anyone who encountered that kind of speed on their first attempt to use php.net would probably give up and not try in the future. It's like making the door of your church hard to open, don't want to turn away the converts. Perhaps mirrors should be able to satisfy minimum load requirements before they go live? Don't worry I'm patient, I just wanted to be helpful. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-03 07:20:24] jrpozo at conclase dot net I think it would be better to deactivate this mirror for the time being. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 11:57:11] goba@php.net Pete, you can pick any other mirror to work with. Only php.net redirects you to mirror sites, and only because it would probably be slower under the high load then your local mirror. We are working to get a better search engine [mnogosearch based] to mirror sites. We were not satisfied with htdig, and know the limitations of google. No mirror so far offered to handle a "central search server" load which would be high because the search is not going to be set up on php.net. Please be a bit patient. Until then I'll try to contact the maintainer of es.php.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-02 07:07:48] pete at foxcreekleather dot com Since www.php.net has begun dynamically redirecting based on IP address the site has become so slow as to be unusable. I will type in a function I want to search for and often have to wait more than a minute for es.php.net to load. Unfortunataly this makes the site almost unusable for me. I am working from Barcelona over a high speed connection. The search documentation function is also useless to me now. I have never found what I was searching for since you switched over to pointing at google instead of using htdig. I realise these are not so much bugs as usability issues, but these two points have definitely impacted how helpful this site is to me as a learning tool. That said the only reason I know php is because this site is so good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23953&edit=1