www.python.org website is down?

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Aug 10 10:13:12 EDT 2009


r wrote:
> On Aug 8, 8:48 am, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> ...(snip)
>> Bothwww.python.organd svn.python.org are down.  They're hosted on
>> the same machine, and it seems to have run into disk problems and
>> hasn't rebooted even after power-cycling.  Thomas Wouters will be
>> visiting the machine physically tomorrow to try to diagnose the
>> problem.
> 
> Oh stop lying MRAB, everybody knows Guido hosts Python.org from his
> attic on an old Linux box :-)

That was a quote from A.M. Kuchling.

It's actually hosted on a matchbox-sized multi-core multi-terabyte
wifi-enabled Linux machine that Guido brought back from 2050.
Unfortunately, the dog ate it, so he's had to go and buy another one!
:-)



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