On 24/11/2007, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But I suspect the larger lag is probably due to
the fact that
MediaWiki is likely to be slower than, for instance, mirrors that only
need to maintain static content, or mirrors that serve much smaller
audiences. Many American users complain of slowness too, and living
in New York, I can testify that Wikipedia is not infrequently
noticeably slower than mirror sites. It's not something specific to
places far away from America.
A request:
You'll see there are fundraiser blog posts being linked from the
sitenotice. We could really do with one about the technical structure,
the *remarkable* feat we manage of running this site on nearly nothing
and the fact that more money = better service.
Is there anyone who knows the structure well enough to describe it
simply and has time to write something quickly? Presumably someone
should stick around for the "why don't you ..." questions in the
comments.
There are a fair number of such descriptions around. I was just
looking at this earlier tonight to clarify a point I was unsure of
(how requests were sent to the closest Squid cluster):