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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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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