Oh, one last thing:
Looking at the recent Alexa traffic graphs reminded me of the recent
E-mail to Wikitech-l, telling the developers that the Wikipedia
infrastructure was (and I quote)
"U N S C A L A B L E"
I think that should now read "unscalable, apart from the ever-improving
performance and continued exponential growth in load", or something?
By the way, what _has_ caused the recent traffic spike? Added hardware?
Software improvements? Better load-balancing? Something else?
In any case, the results have been like letting the handbrake off on a
sports-car.
Kudos again to the developers.
-- Neil