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?