[Wikipedia-l] Re: Fundraising

[Tim Starling]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

> It is important for our developers to have complete access to the servers that 
> Wikimedia projects run on. Otherwise outages will be significantly longer and 
> we would not have any way to fix things ourselves when it is the server that 
> is the problem. Read only mirrors are a very real possibility but in order to 
> get that to work we need somebody to code the functionality. Jimbo supports 
> the idea of read only mirrors but somebody has to code that to make it happen 
> in a near real time and seemless way. Any volunteers?  

Me, me! :)

I've started working on DB replication. We should be able to set up a 
remote slave server once I'm done. The MySQL manual says you can even 
have slave servers connecting over a modem, just dialling up 
occasionally to get the latest updates. So having one in a different 
city or something shouldn't be a problem. There might be a few UI issues 
  to sort out. I guess we'd have to set up a method of mirroring images 
too.

-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>