Am I the only one noticing this, or is http://dmoz.org going REALLY slow? Took 4 minutes to even load a category page for me! Its not my connection, cos all other sites load lightning fast for me (I'm on ADSL)....

Didn't DMOZ get taken over recently? Could it be they have moved server(s) ? (sure they must have more than one server...lol)

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Still being hosted at Netscape:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/...h/?host=www.dmoz.org

It's slow for me too, though. Here's a hint:


Now I'm no network admin. but that looks way screwed to me.

- wil

Yeah.. thats what I thought. The content.rdf.u8.gz file downloads at an ok speed though?

Very odd!

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Hello,

DMOZ is really slow since months, I weant to add links to DMOZ since moths without success, due to timeout's.

It seems that the servers of DMOZ/Netscape can't handle the amount of requests it currently receives.

Yeah... I know its been slow for a while, but I just thought that was cos I was on dial up when I last tried it. Now I'm on ADSL, I know its not me. Its a shame... cos its a good directory.

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Ack!


*definatly* something bad going on here Cheers

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Yep...I do believe that DMOZ is on its last technology leg...it either needs to upgrade its systems, both database and web servers, or shut down its operations, or let it be bought out by a company that has the available technological infrastructure to appropriately handle it.

I tried browsing a section of the DMOZ and most pages timed out at 30 seconds...and I am using a Satellite connection (averaging 500 KPS down) .
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Yup...I'm on ADSL.. and every other site loads really fast for me, except DMOZ. They seem to be back on now.. and going quite fast. As you say, I think its well due for a hardware upgrade. Arn't they owner by Netscape, or do NS just use their data?

I thought I heard rumors that AOL were buying them out a few month ago? (probably just dreaming..lol)

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Andy,

I just got done communicating with a couple DMOZ editors and they told me that they have completed upgrading their servers (both db and web), which was a summer long project, which took longer than they thought.

I've noticed that DMOZ has improved in terms of download speeds in the last couple days.

Hope this helps.
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