Jon Noring wrote:
I know that for production purposes they want to use their own servers -- IA is not reliable enough. IA's focus is on archiving and storing, so 24-7 with full-throttle availability is a lower priority to IA, while DP *must* have 24-7 availability and sufficient speed to not keep volunteers waiting. Thus, disk space is an issue for the DP production process, especially in that DP is still a shoestring operation. Anyway, this is my interpretation of what Juliet told me a few months ago. Maybe someone from DP will reply to this...
The short version - very busy tying shoestrings :) : DP does fairly well for 24/7 uptime now. Since migrating to our own server last year, we've had minor network glitches due to routing hassles at the ISP & a few scheduled outages due to upgrades to the DP code. All our projects in various stages of production are kept on the DP production server. DP has had a production inbalance, proofing more books than post-processing & subsequent posting to PG. Projects are archived off the production server only after they have been posted to PG. Hence over time, we have wound up with ever-decreasing amounts of free disk space. The lack of disk space is not really the issue, the inbalance is. We are doing our best to address the inbalance by further distributing workload & post-processing more of our in progress projects. In the interim, disk space is tight, but we are managing for the moment. I have posted a few times about this issue to the DP Forums. Want to help? - sign up to smooth-read texts before they get posted & help our volunteer post-processors (PPers) & post-processing verifiers (PPVers) post more books to PG. If you can read an ebook, you can help. More info here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13677 An accessible archive of posted projects & images is in the works. Thanks, P - one of the DP Site Admins - (pourlean @ DP)