On 07/12/11 09:50, Dan Nessett wrote:
OK. Call it something else. The motivation for my
question is getting
server costs under control. Moving as much processing as possible client
side is one way to achieve this. Cleaning up the security architecture
may be overly ambitious, but a rewrite would provide the opportunity to
take a rational look at MW's vulnerabilities and security services.
I don't know where WMF is on the cost question, but we would benefit from
reducing our hosting costs.
WMF's hosting costs are pretty well under control. We have two parser
CPU reduction features on our roadmap, but the main justification for
doing them is to reduce latency, rather than cost, thus providing a
better user experience. If both of them are fully utilised, we can
probably reduce average parse time by a factor of 10.
By "we" do you mean Citizendium? How many servers do you have?
-- Tim Starling