On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Alex Brollo <alex.brollo(a)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.)