Dear developers,
I have noticed a serious issue lately with the server and as @Obfuscated mentioned last night in
#codeblocks channel, it must have been a DDoS attack on the server that caused it to go unresponsive. I think it's quite sad seeing the entire server going down and us becoming incapable to do anything about it.
What I would like to suggest though might anger some of you, but please be gentle; as the title says, it's *a kind suggestion*, nothing more.
Before I get started, I would like to congratulate you for the unbelievable achievement of reaching the 10 thousand+ revision of Code::Blocks; kudos to all who have work hard to bring it to the current state it is today. Well done fellas; it shows the great strength of a community that can do unimaginable things through collaboration.
Now, my kind suggestion; since the server becomes unresponsive quite often, why not move the website, forums, and wiki onto SourceForge's servers and get rid of this problematic hosting service? If I'm not mistaken, SF gives you the opportunity to create a custom Virtual Host and use your own domain name with your project. Here's the link
http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Custom%20VHOSTs/As far as I know, you have access to various databases, let alone MySQL. Also, since website hosts a very limited amount of information in contrast with wiki pages, why not replace it with a static website, like Jekyll, Nikola, or even a hand-made static website and save some database workload? I'm sure it will load a lot faster, by orders of magnitude with a plain static website; a bit polishing would become appealing to new candidates in contrast with the current one which looks a bit old comparing with the latest trends (if you care about looks that is of course).
I'm open for discussions and anxiously waiting for any kind of response.
Regards,
ToApolytoXaos
