Drupal Needs a New Home

reardonsteel writes "All of the Drupal websites were offline for about two days because of a server meltdown at the organization's hosting provider. The main Drupal website is back up with a single temporary page and they've announced a fund-raising drive to raise US$3000 for a new server to be hosted at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University's server farm. Drupal is the leading open-source (written in PHP) content management system and is used to power tens of thousands of websites, blogs, community sites, etc." At this point, all they need is an actual server, too: the OSL has agreed to provide rack space, bandwidth, power, backup facilities and support.

Comments

Who?

[Jeet81]

Never heard of Drupal. Can this be a marketing scheme?

Drag Queen?

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Isn't Drupal that drag queen? If I donate money, do I get a free account for the picture galleries? No, but seriously, Drupal is one of the more visible well written PHP applications, something to point at when the Perl freaks start blathering about how PHP is crap unfit for serious projects, and so on...

Leading CMS headache

[3.2.3]

Drupal is the leading open-source (written in PHP) content management system

Bollocks. Slightly ahead of Mambo, Drupal is the leading CMS headache, a brittle pile of PHP script kiddie crap which probably caused their shared host to go down, as it did on my old shared host. "After 48 hours," I wouldn't "[still] have [not] responded to [our] support requests," either. I wish I could have back the month of my life extracating myself from Drupal cost me.

Homeless Business Partners

[Doc Ruby]

How can they lead the content management industry, when they can't survive a server meltdown? Open source doesn't have to mean "living paycheck to paycheck". It has to mean "open for business". Otherwise, businesses (and sensible personal users) won't rely on it - won't use it. Because when it goes down, we're left hanging.