Re: practical concerns for moving PEAR forward

On Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 10:0509PM -0500, Greg Beaver wrote: > PEAR is pear.php.net. pear.php.net gets approximately 800,000 hits/day, > and our mysql database is HUGE. Any minor change can severely affect > performance, and even bring down the whole site (API docs generation, > for instance). The fact that pear.php.net is running on an old box (my cellphone probably has better I/O performance) makes things even worse. > also relies upon mod_rewrite in apache. In addition, all downloads pass > through a PHP file named "get" which masquerades as a directory. We are in the process of changing this. The replacement site for "get" is already in place and things seem to work quite well so far. - Martin