On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:51:07AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Jason Richey wrote:
Why not just serve the images from
images.wikipedia.org (which I
imagine would resolve to the database machine for the moment). Am I
missing some key point that makes something fancier necessary?
My inherent love for complexity? ;-)
Hmmm, well, let me think. A fancy-enough reverse proxying system
could cache images on the frontend machine so that we only have to
bother the database machine for write and occassional reads, whereas
serving all the images directly from the db machine is going to be a
fair amount of traffic.
On the other hand, since images are always going to be different from
article data in some important ways, then *whatever* we do, a switch
to
images.wikipedia.org is probably a very good idea.
Using
images.wikipedia.org I see one open issue: Login cookies are
currently set to the full qualified hostname, e.g.
en.wikipedia.org.
The browser would not send the cookie to
images.wiki[pm]edia.org.
Should we create a unified user database for all wikimedia projects
and set the cookie to *.wikipedia.org?
Regards,
JeLuF