On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT), Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu gave utterance to the following:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Richard Grevers wrote:
Does Wikipedia even want to consider hosting video until it gets its servers sorted out? Personally, I think that any high-bandwidth material should be served from a (third) machine independent of the (not yet implemented) web and database servers.
Bandwidth isn't our problem, though of course it would be nice to have a separate media server too. Serving large static files is fairly easy to do.
But I thought available connections were. And media files will keep a connection tied up for a while. And the act of taking chunks of a file, packetizing them and pushing them out to the network still consumes some CPU, doesn't it?