On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
I see that the overwhelming majority of people here think that splitting
different language wikis away from each other is a good idea?
The idea of splitting is to have the master DB for wikis in different
data centers. They would still replicate their content to the other
data centers.
E.g.:
English in Florida.
French, German, Polish, etc in the Netherlands.
Korean, Japanese, Chinese in South Korea.
All locations would have a slave copy of all the other languages.
If an anonymous user from Germany reads an English wiki page, it
will be fetched from the Netherlands data center. When he wants
to edit the page, the squids in the Netherlands will forward the
request to Florida.
I guess I can kiss my vision of a unified
cross-language watchlist
good-bye then...
Since the data will be available in all datacenters, this should still
be possible in theory.
Seriously, though: I do not understand how setting up
colocations in
other countries is going to accomplish anything that putting the same
hardware into the Florida colo wouldn't already accomplish.
Smaller latency, higher redundancy. Do you remember the hurricane that
nearly hit Tampa? The power outage in the Tampa datacenter? The
switch failure?
Regards,
JeLuF