[Wikipedia-l] Re: Fundraising

[Constans, Camille (C.C.)]

> 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.

Sorry for my newbies question, but there's something i dont understand. Many web site around the world have only one DB server and many load balancing web server. Slashdot for example IIRC. Ok it must be a quadri processor... but it's very fast !

I'm not really sure, that pliny is the bottleneck.

The Larousse server is a piii866, it's a bit short for what we want to do I think. I hope the next upgrade will improve Larousse, then we'll can move other wikis to it. And we'll see if Pliny is really the bottleneck.

My 2 cents