I'm trying to run mediawiki on a free server, but I'm worried about
bandwidth limits.
I'd like to create mirror sites or let other people create mirror
sites (the content will be 100% open source) and have a "master site"
that "randomly" redirects people to a mirror.
The mirror sites should not be "read-only". People should be able to
edit content on the mirror sites and have their changes pushed to the
other mirror sites.
The mirror servers should be as independent as possible:
geographically diverse, on different backbones, each using their own
MySQL server, owned by different people, etc. Some of the mirror
servers may be free, others may be paid hosting, others may be
dedicated servers, etc.
The only thing they'd have in common is they'd all be running
mediawiki and some cron script that merges changed data in from all
the mirrors.
Thoughts?
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On 1/1/07, Kasimir Gabert
kasimir.g@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Kelly Jones,
>
> It seems to me that what you are trying to accomplish is already part
> of MediaWiki -- just have all of the ten MediaWikis use the same
> server, or set up each section of articles on a different
> interwiki-linked database. This would remove the need to rsync
> between each of the servers, and it would remove the need for you to
> manually change anything. The conflicts would not happen, because
> everything would be done in real time.
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
> Kasimir
>
> On 1/1/07, KlinT
klint@klintcentral.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > May be you can try to have a look to mysql-cluster feature ...
> >
> > But, i guess that you must adapt/change the mediawiki source code il
> > order to make sql requests mysql-cluster compliant ... :)
> >
> > should be hard job ... but funny
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Arnaud.
> >
> > Le 2 janv. 07 à 01:31, George Herbert a écrit :
> >
> > > On 12/31/06, Kelly Jones
kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
> > >> It's "easy" to mirror a MediaWiki from one primary server to a number
> > >> of secondary servers, but is it possible to have multiple primary
> > >> servers?
> > >>
> > >> Example: 10 servers and users can make changes on ANY of the 10
> > >> servers. Every night, the servers rsync to each other as follows:
> > >>
> > >> 1. If server X's version hasn't changed all day and server Y's
> > >> version
> > >> HAS changed, server X accepts server Y's version.
> > >>
> > >> 2. If both server X's and server Y's versions have changed, automatic
> > >> CVS style merging is used to resolve the changes.
> > >>
> > >> 3. If CVS style merging yields a conflict, the site maintainer is
> > >> notified and must merge the two files manually (I'm thinking of a
> > >> creating a small site, so this shouldn't be too painful)
> > >>
> > >> I realize the rules above only work for 2 servers -- is there a
> > >> clever
> > >> version of this for n servers (n>2)?
> > >
> > > What are you trying to accomplish by doing that?
> > >
> > > The way the data is in the databases, it's a little more hard than
> > > that.
> > >
> > > How well do you understand clustering theory?
> > >
> > >
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