On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:29:54AM -0400, Sj wrote:
This may be only tangentially related to hosting, but
I would like to
request that keeping a fast read-only copy of the projects up 100% of
the time (say at most an hour of downtime a year, at most a few days
out of date, and with a median page-load time of under two seconds) be
made a priority.
That sounds great, but it raises some issues that are, for the most
part, specific to Wikipedia and not many other projects/companies/et
cetera. At least, it potentially raises such issues, depending on what
exactly you mean to do with that read-only copy. Do you mean to have it
in operation as a way to serve pages concurrently with the primary
setup, or do you mean it to be sort of a failover backup? If the
latter, I'm all for it, if the Powers That Be decide it's in the stars
for us. If the former, however, I might bring up those potential issues
to which I already alluded.
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Chad Perrin
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