Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 4/9/07, David Gerard wrote:
I thought we had bandwidth for free.
I believe Kennisnet pay for bandwidth out of Amsterdam and Yahoo! out of Seoul, but I'm pretty sure the WMF pays for bandwidth out of Tampa.
And the free bandwidth we do receive is finite.
But "reduce bandwidth" is entirely the wrong way to look at the issue. The correct way is for us to try to find ways to maximize the ratio of Wikimedia donations to commons bandwidth usage, then to *maximize* our bandwidth usage. :)
We would be ahead of the game if we found ways to turn more of Common's growing viewer (vs contributor) base into Wikimedia donors.
We could always be tricky and move the image server to knams or seoul. Cost of sending the image commands via ssh is nothing compared with sending the images from tampa (yes, i know they already do some caching).