On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:22:51PM +0200, Jeroenvrp wrote:
The last point I want to make is: I can understand that decisions of upgrades of sotware and hardware are made by the sysops on location, but when these kind of important and critical changes are made by people from the other side of the Ocean, without consulting the hardworking people on this side of the Atlantic, people can become very upset. I can't feel anything of a community-feeling in this way of acting.
It isn't like there's anything to decide - the system is heavily overloaded and the alternatives are to have Wikipedia with search engine redirected to Google (what is good enough in most cases) or Wikipedia that is too slow to use.
If you think there's some other way, you're free to submit performance-enhancing patches and we will be happy to apply there.
If you have some spare hardware, we could find some use for it, but at the moment our database is too centralized.
(I'm on the same side of Atlantic as you)