Stephane Coillet-Matillon, 24/06/20 18:08: > We rolled-out the whole thing in a few days using Kiwix-serve[2] - most of > the time needed was for them to secure a big-ass server and grant us root > access. It’s been running smoothly ever since - up to 100,000 users/month at > peak, which was nice. Contents deployed were Wikipedia, Khan Academy, > Wiktionary, Vikidia and a couple of video channels we also serve as ZIMs. > > So what did we learn? > - Kiwix-serve is super easy to install, and can manage large loads robustly;
This is excellent! I think it's good news for digital preservation purposes, too. When a dynamic website is retired, in the future you can "just" archive it is a static website in HTML and serve it with a proxy. Currently this is only possible with WARC-proxy and I'm not aware of anyone using such technologies at scale before this. Also, compare to the cost of running the Wikipedia Zero initiative, which needed a lot of software configuration in MediaWiki and Wikimedia clusters. Serving a dump is not as good as serving dynamic content, but being able to do it independently from Wikimedia Foundation is a giant plus. > They made a simple but sweet video[3] - in French only but you’ll get the > idea. > [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ug0XEFhByc Cute. Federico _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
