From: "Ian" rsvr4cqdon001@sneakemail.com
Much more pratical would be a mirroring system. Bomis could continue to do the main wikipedia.com where updates would take place and the authoritative version would reside, and mirrors could automatically download new versions of pages. There could be more then one tier of mirrors to lift even more bandwidth and CPU time (which appears to be a bigger problem) off of Bomis.
CPU time is not really the problem. The problem is that that the current script still contains a lot of code that is not really programmed in a scalable way. Distribution is not a solution to that problem, it will make it worse.
-- Jan Hidders