[Wikipedia-l] Everything in the last digest

[Jan Hidders]

From: "Ian" <rsvr4cqdon001 at sneakemail.com>


> 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.

CPU time is not really the problem. The problem is that that the current
script still contains a lot of code that is not really programmed in a
scalable way. Distribution is not a solution to that problem, it will make
it worse.

-- Jan Hidders