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?