Delirium (delirium@hackish.org) [050804 01:55]:
Brion Vibber wrote:
What would be the legal implications of serving some content from outside of the United States, in comparison to merely running them through a local caching proxy?
It would certainly make things more complex than having them all in one country. Is there really any benefit to introducing the added complexity? London to New York ping times are around 60-80 milliseconds roundtrip, so physical location isn't even noticeable compared to the other sources of latency.
Indeed. And given UK libel laws, there is NO WAY ON EARTH I'd want to see a Wikimedia database hosted in the UK.
What's our reader:editor ratio, 50:1? (Are there stats available per wiki?) Logged-in page views mostly aren't cached, but if we have enough readers it should still help. How helpful have the French and Dutch squids been to serving European readers efficiently?
- d.