Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
It would greatly speed up things for European users.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:58 +0200, Mathias Schindler neubau@presroi.de wrote:
Can you provide any data indicating that the 20ms-lag between this Atlantic bath tub does represent any kind of bottleneck for the average European user?
Regardless of the connection, splitting off some of the European Wikis onto their own hardware would mean better performance on the back-end, which should improve things significantly.
Also, I think it might encourage more such donations if would-be benefactors knew their contributions would directly improve the situation for their local Wikis, rather than being effectively being absorbed into the English Wiki (since it would see the lion's share of any overall improvement to the cluster in Florida).
If, as Yann and Anthere have already mentioned, we can even get free hosting in France for this hardware, this seems like a no-brainer to me. At worst, we could always ship the servers over to Florida at a later date if things didn't work out. We literally have nothing to lose, here.
-Bill