[Foundation-l] Re: Our exponentially increasing costs

[Dan Grey]

On 31/10/05, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar at altern.org> wrote:
> Dan Grey wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'd love to hear from the devs about this , but my impression is that
> > the system is very highly optimised. If you think you can do better,
> > write the code!
>
> The system can be changed to something else :) We could outsource
> content display and just take care of editing.
>
> Using en.wikipedia.org as an example:
>
> 1/ user access en.wikipedia.org , he is prompted for a mirror.
> 2/ user get redirected to en.mirror1.wikipedia.org
> That mirror content is managed by some external people.
> 3/ user click edit on en.mirror1.wikipedia.org , he got redirected
> to en.editing.wikipedia.org with a notice telling him that the mirror he
> comes from might be lagging a bit.
> 4/ user submit the edit, see its work and next click get redirected to
> en.mirror1.wikipedia.org
>
> This way the foundation will just have to handle the editing part and
> the rest of content will be outsourced.

Isn't most of the server load from editing though? I thought display
was handled mostly by squids - and I think I've heard people say that
a static version of the site could be served by just a single squid
instance or something...


Dan