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Web performance, part 1

March 18, 2011 – 2:44 pm

After experiencing some really heavy loads on the server last weekend (which caused some 503′s – sorry again) we pulled down some logs from the servers and applied some grep and sed magic on them. We were a little surprised by what we learned. It turned out that over 20% of the requests to the [...]

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We’re in business. Literally

March 11, 2011 – 1:34 pm

As mentioned in a previous blog post, gitorious.com is getting some new content. We’re launching the new gitorious.com today, and we’re really excited about it. Gitorious started out as Johan Sørensen scratching his own itch almost four years ago. After steadily getting more users and projects on board, Gitorious grew into a business in 2009 [...]

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Another update on the Sony issue

February 24, 2011 – 9:26 am

Yesterday we received a letter from Sony’s attourneys asking us to disable access to a list of projects hosted on gitorious.org. The letter claims that the repositories in question provide circumvention of effective protection mechanisms built into Sony’s PlayStation 3, which would be illegal according to Norwegian law. Furthermore, Gitorious would be subject to direct [...]

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An update on the Sony DMCA issue

February 3, 2011 – 9:47 am

We have just sent an email to Sony’s legal attournes in reply to their DMCA takedown notice sent to us yesterday: Re: Demand for removal of claimed copyright infringing content from Gitorious.org This is in reply to your notification of United States Copyright Law Violations at Listed URLs, dated February 1st 2011. As we confirmed [...]

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Gitorious receives DMCA takedown notice from Sony

February 2, 2011 – 1:41 pm

This morning Gitorious received a DMCA takedown notice from Sony. The notice addressed quite a few repositories on gitorious.org that are hosting various PS3 related code. Norwegian law commands us to respond to such notices by removing potentially copyright infringing content until it’s legality can be fully clarified. For that reason, some of you have [...]

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Update to Gitorious’ terms of service and privacy policy

January 31, 2011 – 12:26 pm

We’re posting this short notice that the Gitorious Terms of Service have been updated today, to reflect the fact that gitorious.org is now run by Gitorious AS, a subsidiary of Shortcut AS. The changes are basically a find-replace of occurences of the Shortcut AS company name to Gitorious AS. The documents that have changed are: [...]

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Gitorious.com will “go away”

January 31, 2011 – 12:14 pm

For some time, our web server has been configured to present gitorious.org to you even if you access through gitorious.com (no redirect, it “just works”). As Gitorious is now a company with its own employees, we will be re-purposing gitorious.com. In one week from now, on February 7th, gitorious.com will be home to our commercial [...]

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DNS update

January 13, 2011 – 6:52 am

Just before Christmas, we had a DNS issue that made Gitorious unavailable for about an hour. In the post about that issue we mentioned that we would be changing our DNS provider, a process that was just completed this morning. DNS is a fairly self-sustaining system, so the change should not affect you in any [...]

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Gitorious is microblogging!

January 3, 2011 – 9:27 am

First of all: a happy new year to you all! As we mentioned right before Christmas, we have some great plans for 2011, and we look forward to a great year. Our first baby step in the new year is to start using microblogging to keep in touch with you. You’ll find Gitorious on Identi.ca [...]

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DNS fail

December 23, 2010 – 6:32 pm

A few hours ago, our DNS provider shut down our account, affecting all services on Gitorious.org. We renewed the service, and all services should be operational again. We actually renewed the service (and paid for it) about a month ago, and they messed up. This affected all of us, and we’re really sorry about any [...]

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