On 2013-10-01 2:18 PM, "Chris Steipp" csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org
wrote:
With VPS prices starting in the $2-$5 a month range [1][2][3][4] there are not many reasons left for using less secure and less predictable shared hosting. People have been migrating away from shared hosting for a while, and this trend is set to continue in the future.
Sadly, most VPS'es are less secure, because big hosting companies patch their shared hosting environment, but most users don't setup any patching on their vps. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Vps isn't the only reason people might want to use file cache. The person may just not be very experianced, and actually setting up squid could be beyond them.
I don't think large amount of foundation resources should be spent on features like file cache. However I still think it should be allowed to exist provided it doesn't cause problems. As far as I can tell, no one has pointed to an active problem its causing other than the feature isn't "perfect".
-bawolff