{"id":636,"date":"2005-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/11\/04\/571\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T23:00:00","slug":"571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/11\/04\/571\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2005\/11\/03\/Wikipedia\" title=\"ongoing - Wikipedia Notes\">Wikipedia Notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, there are 124 servers, fairly heterogeneous, although these days they\u2019ve pretty well standardized on dual-Opteron boxes. The MediaWiki software is PHP-based, mostly running on Fedora; I wonder if this is the world\u2019s largest-scale PHP deployment, or would Yahoo top that? They get a pretty good hit rate on their Squid caches; basically, the whole system scales about linearly with the number of servers they deploy.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Having said that, speaking both as a user and contributor, I find that Wikipedia\u2019s performance is mostly pretty terrible; usable, but irritatingly slow. So there\u2019s certainly room for improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray &#8211; Wikipedia Notes: \u201cAs of today, there are 124 servers, fairly heterogeneous, although these days they\u2019ve pretty well standardized on dual-Opteron boxes. The MediaWiki software is PHP-based, mostly running on Fedora; I wonder if this is the world\u2019s largest-scale PHP deployment, or would Yahoo top that? They get a pretty good hit rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}