Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/11/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
While we're praising things... I just wanted
to say that the other day
my internet connection was bad and I had a hard time reaching the
'pedia and I remembered that less than a year ago there were almost
constant technical problems relating to hardware, databases, servers,
etc. I can't remember the last time there was even protracted time of
server downtime or really annoying "experiencing difficulties" every
time you tried to submit something.
You and I are using different Wikipedias, or at different times of day
:) I'm not complaining at all about what the tech people get done with
very limited resources, but you couldn't compare it to the 0% downtime
of other similarly-popular websites.
Though I have to say the most common problem for me is not being able
to save changes to a page, and having to retry several times, which
probably doesn't affect casual browsers.
Steve
Just to put things in context, WP is currently #17 in Alexa's rankings.
Its nearest neighbors in the rankings are:
#14
microsoft.com
#15 yahoo.com.cn
#16 google.co.uk
...
#18 google.co.jp
#19
blogger.com (ie, Google again)
#20 bbc.co.uk
Each of these WP "competitors" is run by an organization with a
multi-billion-dollar annual turnover.
I'm sure that the current engineering team could achieve similar levels
of reliability, given access to an IT budget similar to those available
to these companies.
-- Neil