On 11/24/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24/11/2007, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
But I suspect the larger lag is probably due to the fact that MediaWiki is likely to be slower than, for instance, mirrors that only need to maintain static content, or mirrors that serve much smaller audiences. Many American users complain of slowness too, and living in New York, I can testify that Wikipedia is not infrequently noticeably slower than mirror sites. It's not something specific to places far away from America.
A request:
You'll see there are fundraiser blog posts being linked from the sitenotice. We could really do with one about the technical structure, the *remarkable* feat we manage of running this site on nearly nothing and the fact that more money = better service.
Is there anyone who knows the structure well enough to describe it simply and has time to write something quickly? Presumably someone should stick around for the "why don't you ..." questions in the comments.
There are a fair number of such descriptions around. I was just looking at this earlier tonight to clarify a point I was unsure of (how requests were sent to the closest Squid cluster):