A lot of people have complained recently about slow response and timeouts on perlmonks.org. Well, let's do what we can to help out!

It's the Holiday Season (to be politically correct), so what can we do? "For the price of a cup of coffee (more like a grande triple mochachino latte from Starbucks, that is), you can Save the Server."

There are 45 monks kicking around at the time I write this post. As a wildly inaccurate and conservative guess, there's got to be 300+ monks hitting the site very actively, right? 300 * $10 = $3000 bucks in upgrades. Okay, it ain't gonna get you a Box that Rocks(tm), but that'll buy lots o' RAM and disk.

Is it a bandwidth issue, or a CPU/RAM/disk I/O issue? How much money would need to find its way to the Offering Plate to speed things up?

So, who's with me? Who can spare $10 or $20 bucks to Save the Server?

In reply to 'Tis the season. by joealba

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