pidgin.im very slow

[Mark Doliner]

I asked and it's likely Meebo would donate a single 1U server if we
can find somewhere to host it.  It would be a used (for maybe a year
or two) Dell Poweredge 850, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (dual
core), 2GB RAM and a single 73GB drive (we'd probably want to buy a
second drive and use RAID1).

Are we interested in being responsible for our own hardware?  We'd
need to install an OS and reinstall our services and stuff.  And I
imagine we'd be much worse off if there's a hardware failure.  But it
seems like it would perform better than a shared server of any sort.
If that's something we're interested in then we should ask about
hosting.

-Mark

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
> 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
>
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