@civodulLudovic Courtès My guess as a complete outsider (as implied by the toot at the top of this thread) is because it’s running on the same server(s) as debbugs, the Savannah web interface, etc, all of which look to be fairly ancient CGI scripts, and scrapers hitting those specifically are pushing the server load way up. Very sad, not web scale, should have used Node.js with MongoDB, etc etc
@dpkDaphne Preston-Kendal AFAIK, as former “semi-insider” (this part is managed by FSF staff and is fairly opaque), www.gnu.org runs on different servers than Savannah & co. But all these services have a terrible technical debt, as you note.
Example: to have a web page show up on www.gnu.org, one has to commit HTML files in a CVS repo that is then checked out by some machinery, which also does “server-side includes” (raw HTML post-processing like in the 90’s). :-)
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