[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010

[Steve Holden]

On 7/21/2010 10:40 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 19:38, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>> From what I've been able to tell from afar, I strongly suspect PyPI's
>> downtimes would be greatly reduced with a move to mod_wsgi (currently it is
>> using mod_fcgi, and most downtime is solved with an Apache restart --
>> mod_wsgi generally recovers from these problems without intervention).
>> Martin attempted this at one time but ran into some installation problems.
>> It seems like the team of people managing PyPI could benefit from the
>> addition of someone with more of a sysadmin background (e.g., to help with
>> installing a monitor on the server).
> 
> I have some experience with mod_wsgi (and this is what we're using for
> the hg.python.org setup, I think). I'd be happy to help out more with
> that, if it helps (though most of my experience is not with the
> Debian-based distributions).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dirkjan

Copying this message to the mod_wsgi author/maintainer, who should be
able to give us sound advice on this (as should Ian, but he's a
secondary server for the data :-).

regards
 Steve
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