On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:10:53PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com): On the "every little bit helps" theory, I've offloaded wiki.png to a different machine for now. At least that's going to free up some httpd's to do something else.
I'd like to point out that I think this is a bad thing(tm) to do. Not only will some users not receive the image (because they have their browser set up to not accept images that don't originate from the original server), but it will also cause a lot of browsers to fail to load the page if jimmywales.com goes down (or at least they'll hang and hang and hang...).
I have a much better idea to handle these files, I'll detail it shortly. But with HTTP/1.1, moving those files will pages load _slower_ for most people (since they have to do an additional DNS lookup and connect()), rather than piggybacking off an already existing HTTP/1.1 connection.