A few days ago, Drupal.org server went down, including the forums, the mailing lists, and the CVS repository. Two days passed before a message appeared on the main page asking for 3,000$ in donations to buy a new server. It turns out that for years they were hosted on a shared server that did not keep up with the growth. Last month it did serve 3 million pages, and 100 Gb of bandwidth.When I saw this message it was a few hours old, and asking for money in Euros. About 700$ or so were raised. I donated 80 Euros (about 100$US). After 7 hours, it switched to dollars, and 1,897$ were donated by 56 people.Then Slashdot posted an article on the situation, and the donations really started rolling in.After 13 hours, donations exceeded the amount needed, and reached 6,468$, and in 24 hours, it reached 9,282$.I think that this response is really awesome, and is testimony to the community that is Drupal.Now what do we do with the extra money? Here are some thoughts:
- Pay for the legal expenses for setting up a proper Drupal Foundation non-profit.
- Make one server for CVS and perhaps mailing lists, another for the web site, and a third as hot spare.
- Split the web site on two servers, one for the PHP scripts and Apache, and the other for MySQL.
Of course there are lots of other options ...
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