On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:01:06AM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
[ibiblio] would LOVE to host wikipedia.org...
I don't think that's an option, but certainly they might be useful as a mirror, or storage for backups, etc.
That's something I was thinking - perhaps, for example, the database goes down. At that point, we make a quick Apache change, and all requests URLs are re-written to point at a read-only copy of Wikipedia @ ibiblio.
However, is there a reason why we couldn't have ibiblio host the entire Wikipedia? It seems that is what Brion was asking for. If they're willing to supply three, four (or more) servers to keep Wikipedia running, why isn't that a good thing?