Delirium (delirium(a)hackish.org) [050804 01:55]:
Brion Vibber wrote:
>What would be the legal implications of serving
some content from
>outside of the United States, in comparison to merely running them
>through a local caching proxy?
It would certainly make things more complex than
having them all in one
country. Is there really any benefit to introducing the added
complexity? London to New York ping times are around 60-80 milliseconds
roundtrip, so physical location isn't even noticeable compared to the
other sources of latency.
Indeed. And given UK libel laws, there is NO WAY ON EARTH I'd want to see a
Wikimedia database hosted in the UK.
What's our reader:editor ratio, 50:1? (Are there stats available per wiki?)
Logged-in page views mostly aren't cached, but if we have enough readers it
should still help. How helpful have the French and Dutch squids been to
serving European readers efficiently?
- d.