On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:15:41 +1100, Tim Starling wrote: > 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?
Yes. > How many servers do you have? 3. It would help to get it down to 2. I assume my comments apply to many other small wikis that use MW as well. Most operate on a shoe string budget. -- -- Dan Nessett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
