Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
We have plenty of bandwidth on wikipedia.org,
For now at least. But the various Wikimedia projects are together creating new pages at an exponential rate that are in turn being viewed by an exponentially increasing number of readers.
We have been very fortunate to have a bandwidth sugar daddy (hi Jimbo!) so far but we should not assume that Bomis will be able to foot the bill when our popularity (measured in hits/bandwidth consumption) becomes comparable to websites like Slashdot.org or even Yahoo.com.
At some point we are going to have to economize our bandwidth usage. BitTorrent is one of those possibilities (mirrors are another) and IMO it is better to start thinking about this now rather than when bandwidth gets more limited. I have, however, no opinion on this particular technology though.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)