[WikiEN-l] new Google Earth tie-in (!!)

[Andrew Gray]

On 13/12/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We (and they) are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation.  It's
> > good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of
> > hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their
> > users' load.  But of course on the other hand it's supremely
> > annoying that they're working from their own stashed copy,
> > because (as you note and I emphatically agree) our lovely
> > instantaneous wiki-quick edit-save-test loop is broken.
>
> Why can't we have the best of both worlds? They get the co-ordinates
> from the database dumps, but when a user clicks on the globe icon they
> get the live page. We should be able to handle the load if our servers
> are only hit when a user actually tries to read the page.

You'd think that. We regularly block "live mirrors" and so forth,
because we're having enough trouble handling our own load much less
anyone else's. The exceptions are usually either low-traffic and vital
(there's a smallish email-webpages service operating in Africa which
we let grab stuff on demand, IIRC) or paid for (people like
answers.com)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk