pidgin.im very slow

[Luke Schierer]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:57:22PM -0700, Mark Doliner wrote:
> I think it's probably because AOL was not allowing ICQ accounts to
> login from Pidgin because we were advertising ourselves as an older
> version of the software, and the error message that we present to
> users directs them to download a newer version at http://pidgin.im/  I
> imagine the slowness will clear up in a day or two.
> 
> On a related note, if someone happened to donate a decent 1U server to
> us, do you think we could get that co-located somewhere for free?
> Would our current hosting provider be able to do that?  A dedicated 1U
> server would be an improvement over our current shared server, right?
> I don't know who of us has talked to our hosting provider in the
> past... is anyone interesting in asking them about this?
> 
> -Mark

I don't think DVLabs would do co-lo for free, even if we provided the
server.  Power and rack space at their datacenter is somewhat at a
premium.

It is worth noting that we are being moved to a different host soon,
tomorrow or Friday I am told.

Luke