There needs to a series of mirrors to show static pages, and wikipedia.com only used for Recent Changes and editing. Their would still be a lot of load on wikipedia.com but not as much, and if you just have to look something up it would be easier. The mirrors could update about once or twice a day.
School ends on the 24th, hopefully I'll be able to implement it this summer. It would just need something to automatically produce static pages which the mirrors would somehow be informed of what to download or it could all be bziped up, whatever. I'll try to make it in as seperate files as possible so it doesn't have to actually be implemented until its ready and wanted.
Ian Monroe http://ian.webhop.org
On Wed, 8 May 2002, kband@www.llamacom.com XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?q?Chuck=20Smith?= wrote:
Improving performance on English server: when the server reaches a certain threshhold of activity could we replace the text of all the Special pages with:
"This page is currently inaccessible because of the immensive amount of traffic we're getting. Wikipedia is just too popular."
Removing Recent Changes functionality removes most of the functionality for me as an editor...taking it down would be almost as bad as the current molasses we're in.
A much better suggestion would be to fix the code. My completely unhelpful suspicion is that it's PHP's fault. But I'm a perl bigot, so take it for what it's worth. I'm just not surprised we're having problems.
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Ian wrote:
There needs to a series of mirrors to show static pages, and wikipedia.com only used for Recent Changes and editing. Their would still be a lot of load on wikipedia.com but not as much, and if you just have to look something up it would be easier. The mirrors could update about once or twice a day.
School ends on the 24th, hopefully I'll be able to implement it this summer. It would just need something to automatically produce static pages which the mirrors would somehow be informed of what to download or it could all be bziped up, whatever. I'll try to make it in as seperate files as possible so it doesn't have to actually be implemented until its ready and wanted.
While I'm sympathetic to this in the long run, I'm not convinced that this is the real problem. We're not seeing anything like the levels of traffic that should be difficult for a single server to handle. We're just not using our resources wisely.
--Jimbo
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