On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com wrote:
Nevertheless... sometime people tells me "don't us this hack, it is server overloading"... sometimes it isn't, or simply it is a undocumented, unproofed personal opinion.
Ignore them. Server overload is not a problem that users are in a position to evaluate, and a lot of users get completely insane ideas about performance. There have been cases of wikis making up entire policies that were completely groundless. The performance issues you should be paying attention to are the ones that are visible to the front-end, i.e., ones that produce slowness or error messages that you can personally see. If anyone tries to tell you that you should or should not do something because of server load, point them to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PERF and ignore them.
(Except if they're a sysadmin. But if a performance issue becomes important enough that a sysadmin intervenes, they're not going to give you the option of ignoring them.)