There are several other reasons.
The uptime of the cluster in Amsterdam isn't that good, an other site would probably not be much better, but it could be alive while the TS' in Amsterdam are dead.
Also, there are probably legal reasons for using a local server for some type of material, especial regarding privacy but probably also due to copyright. If something is within the laws about privacy in Norway it is necessary to know who gets access to the data, which we do not know in Amsterdam. Another example is a server for a chapter-only website, with read only access after logon for members.
And at last, sometime it seems like the wmde-admins simply ain't responsive. Why that is so I don't know, but it is nearly impossible to run a project when you can't get in touch with the server admins.
John
Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Adam Dodek Michalik schrieb:
2009/7/29 Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org:
The German toolserver is in the same rack as the European proxies, but it's not better because edits and API requests have to go to Tampa.
So it seems it's not any faster to run bots form German Toolserver than from our own, local one, as long as you don't use the database - am I right? Many people use TS to run their bots on it - including myself. Wouldn't some local TSs help balance the load?
More servers to run bots on would be a good thing. From a technical point of view, it would be better to have all of them in the same cluster, so user accounts and secondary services (svn, jira, etc) can be shared and administrative overhead is minimized.
The only reasons *not* to do that are political/financial. IF those could be resolved, that would be great. If not, then yes, having another place to run bots is still good.
-- daniel
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