On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:10:53PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> (Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>)m>):
> On the "every little bit helps" theory, I've offloaded wiki.png to a
> different machine for now. At least that's going to free up some
> httpd's to do something else.
I'd like to point out that I think this is a bad thing(tm) to do. Not
only will some users not receive the image (because they have their
browser set up to not accept images that don't originate from the
original server), but it will also cause a lot of browsers to fail to
load the page if
jimmywales.com goes down (or at least they'll hang and
hang and hang...).
I have a much better idea to handle these files, I'll detail it shortly.
But with HTTP/1.1, moving those files will pages load _slower_ for most
people (since they have to do an additional DNS lookup and connect()),
rather than piggybacking off an already existing HTTP/1.1 connection.
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Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN