[Wikipedia-l] Everything in the last digest

[Ian]

Much more pratical would be a mirroring system. Bomis could continue to do
the main wikipedia.com where updates would take place and the
authoritative version would reside, and mirrors could automatically
download new versions of pages. There could be more then one tier of
mirrors to lift even more bandwidth and CPU time (which appears to be a 
bigger problem) off of Bomis.

The mirrors could wouldn't have to use php-wikipedia, they could just have
static pages (though they could have edit this links, which would take
you to wikipedia.com).

Granted, I don't have the time to put the code where my moulth is. 

Ian Monroe
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, kband at www.llamacom.com XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> > Why would we want to distribute hosting?  And for that matter, what's
> > wrong with advertising, provided it's done as subtly as possible, and
> > not from various merchants of death ;-) (which I still think is for
> > Bomis to decide -- I may feel very proprietary about a lot of stuff
> > here, but I  still remember I'm on somebody else's playground.  Jimbo et
> > al. have  been very cool about trying to  get input, but business
> > decisions should belong to them)
> 
> It's a matter of scaling. Hosting is currently the only bottleneck
> in the wikipedia process, other than possible problems in organization
> of material. If the popularity of Wikipedia doubles, the hosting needs
> to double--with distributed hosting, that would happen automatically.
> 
> -tc
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