I like the idea of several small machines better than one big machine. At least, if the mailing list server is up when the DB or Web server is down, the developers can COMMUNICATE with each other to figure out how to fix it.
Wikipedia doesn't seem any faster this month than before Christmas. My main concern is response time. When I click on a link, I don't want to wait more than 5 second. Especially when I'm following multiple links: A links to B, then I want to glance at [[talk:B]] before adding a comment. At 5 or 10 seconds per user click, three clicks means 15 to 30 seconds before I can stop typing. It makes me wish I could do all my editing off-line.
Ed Poor
On Jan 8, 2004, at 06:51, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I like the idea of several small machines better than one big machine. At least, if the mailing list server is up when the DB or Web server is down, the developers can COMMUNICATE with each other to figure out how to fix it.
Do you remember late December, when the backup mailserver kept us all connected even while pliny was down for a couple days?
Wikipedia doesn't seem any faster this month than before Christmas.
That might have something to do with the database server having been offline during that whole time period, replaced with a slower temporary machine.
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