Annother recent publication that similarly used Wikipedia as an example to simulate the alleged benefits of a different hosting model: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236942031_Symbiotic_Coupling_of_P2P_... (covered in the July Wikimedia Research Newsletter)
It's by two German computer scientists who conclude that the Wikimedia Foundation "can reduce the traffic needed for article lookups in case of Wikipedia up to 72%" by having participants in a P2P network storing and serving some articles from their machines, while still also serving them from a central installation (cloud). I seem to recall that this kind of proposal for Wikipedia was quite popular in like the mid 2000s (when P2P was more in fashion and WMF had less money), to the point that Brion or Tim or someone else involved with the actual hosting wrote a rebuttal, which I can't find any more.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:44 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Analysts agree! http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-cost-analysis/cloud-cost-analysis-how-m...
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