Has anybody ever considered the possibility that maybe people don't know (or want to know) how to set up a caching proxy? One of the nice things about MediaWiki is that it's extraordinarily easy to set up. All you have to do is dump a tar.gz file into a directory, run the web installer and call it a day. No sysadmin experience required.
The file cache allows simple and easy caching for wiki administrators who aren't system administrators and just want their site to be more performant without having to learn how to configure their web server as well as an additional caching daemon. Also, like Mark mentioned, I'd like to see some statistics on how many people use shared hosting for MediaWiki before dropping support for them out of principle. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Chris Steipp <cste...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > With VPS prices starting in the $2-$5 a month range [1][2][3][4] there > > are not many reasons left for using less secure and less predictable > > shared hosting. People have been migrating away from shared hosting for > > a while, and this trend is set to continue in the future. > > > > Sadly, most VPS'es are less secure, because big hosting companies patch > their shared hosting environment, but most users don't setup any patching > on their vps. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
