Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> It would greatly speed up things for European
users.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:58 +0200, Mathias Schindler <neubau(a)presroi.de> wrote:
Can you provide any data indicating that the 20ms-lag
between this
Atlantic bath tub does represent any kind of bottleneck for the average
European user?
Regardless of the connection, splitting off some of the European Wikis
onto their own hardware would mean better performance on the back-end,
which should improve things significantly.
Also, I think it might encourage more such donations if would-be
benefactors knew their contributions would directly improve the
situation for their local Wikis, rather than being effectively being
absorbed into the English Wiki (since it would see the lion's share of
any overall improvement to the cluster in Florida).
If, as Yann and Anthere have already mentioned, we can even get free
hosting in France for this hardware, this seems like a no-brainer to
me. At worst, we could always ship the servers over to Florida at a
later date if things didn't work out. We literally have nothing to
lose, here.
-Bill