* Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org [Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:54:22 +1100]:
On 07/12/11 12:34, Dan Nessett wrote:
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:15:41 +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
How many servers do you have?
- It would help to get it down to 2.
I assume my comments apply to many other small wikis that use MW as
well.
Most operate on a shoe string budget.
You should try running MediaWiki on HipHop. See
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HipHop
It's not possible to pay developers to rewrite MediaWiki for less than what it would cost to buy a server. But maybe getting a particular MW installation to run on HipHop with a reduced feature set would be in the same order of magnitude of cost.
-- Tim Starling
An easier and probably more exotic-extension-compatible way is to use upcoming PHP 5.4, they promised faster execution and smaller memory footprint comparing to PHP 5.3. Dmitriy