On 07/12/11 09:50, Dan Nessett wrote:
OK. Call it something else. The motivation for my question is getting server costs under control. Moving as much processing as possible client side is one way to achieve this. Cleaning up the security architecture may be overly ambitious, but a rewrite would provide the opportunity to take a rational look at MW's vulnerabilities and security services.
I don't know where WMF is on the cost question, but we would benefit from reducing our hosting costs.
WMF's hosting costs are pretty well under control. We have two parser CPU reduction features on our roadmap, but the main justification for doing them is to reduce latency, rather than cost, thus providing a better user experience. If both of them are fully utilised, we can probably reduce average parse time by a factor of 10.
By "we" do you mean Citizendium? How many servers do you have?
-- Tim Starling