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

ID: 23953 Updated by: goba@php.net Reported By: pete at foxcreekleather dot com -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: NA PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: Ups, disregard my last paragraph, that is not in connection with this bug report. But the first para is correct. BTW is the speed of es2.php.net OK? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-03 07:57:43] goba@php.net I can perfectly understand your reasoning Pete, but we have no method to measure mirror speeds from a central administration machine. We are able to check if it is up, if it is updated, and check several other parameters it provides about itself. But that it is slow if accessed by our bot does not mean that it is slow when accessed from a local machine. There are several ISPs, who have very weak international connections but a strong local connection. We can only act on user reports. At least I don't know of a solution... BTW the ee2.php.net is now free, as the Korean mirror which was there is removed now. So if some ISP comes with an offer to set up a mirror in Estonia, we won't turn it down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-03 07:27:21] pete at foxcreekleather dot com 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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