[Catalog-sig] start on static generation, and caching - apache config.

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> That was the most significant spike in the load today, and I surely
>> would like to know what was causing it.
> 
> Maybe someone was trying to mirror pypi because it is too slow. :/  I
> suspect that there is a lot of this going on.

In that case, I doubt it. The top client identified itself as
setuptools.

> I've seen requests take minutes and time out with proxy errors many
> times over the last few weeks.  We, ZC, and many people we work with are
> at the point of building private indexes to get around the horrible
> performance.

I still don't understand why you consider this an easier option than
contributing to the existing project. If you invest time to do an
alternative, isn't this more expensive than starting where others
have already contributed?

But if you think that scratches your itches: good luck!

> Maybe others can chime in.

That's also my concern. Nobody else is complaining; AFAICT, there
is just one unhappy user of PyPI.

Regards,
Martin