On Thu, 1 May 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:45:53 -0700 From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Chat about Wikipedia performance?
We've been advised by... I'm sorry, but I forgot who it was, but he's the author of a well-known book on this sort of thing... that separating webserving and database should be a huge win. If that's right, then we should be good to go after the new server is installed this weekend, and after some time spent getting it into service.
Well, to be fair, one of the very first questions I asked upon joining wikien-l was whether the database and webserver were on one host or two, with exactly that reasoning in mind. But I don't think I've written any well-known books... unless the Wikipedia itself counts? ;)