On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:36:27AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Jason Richey wrote:
I can barely stand to refer to the current wiki server as "the current wiki server", and I don't even know how I'll refer to the new server. I'd like to give the servers official names, just so I can refer to them in a single word.
I propose db.wikipedia.org for the backend and some system like www1.wikipedia.org for the frontend (web) server. These are internal names, not for the public, because of course the public doesn't care about that.
In this way, when we add more frontend machines (inevitable) and a loadbalancing system, we will have a good naming scheme, www2, www3 and so on.
But these names are sooo boring ;-) And they don't follow RFC 1178.