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The (baffling) explanation given is that Ward Cunningham has one computer, and serving the wiki from it made it slow for other work: So why close? It gives

by Camillo 10y ago

The (baffling) explanation given is that Ward Cunningham has one computer, and serving the wiki from it made it slow for other work: So why close? It gives me room to work. The continuous scraping bumps up against my web throttling making all other web services useless. Even shell is painfully slow. The other work seems to be the conversion of the original wiki into a federated wiki. The page meanders through a confusing explanation which probably makes sense if you know the history of that particular project, but the ultimate result seems to be the same: "If you want to help. Learn some federated wiki." So I guess another reason for closing the old wiki could be to take advantage of the news this generate to recruit people for this (new? old?) conversion effort.

superkuh 10y ago
Running a web server on your home machine is the best way to be part of the internet rather than a consumer of services provided by corporations over the internet. It does sound like he needs a better QoS or bandwidth limiting mechanism though.
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  Or a second box. Running public services on my personal server ... is very old-school, but it gives me the heeby geebies to think of doing it now. Hardware is cheap cheap cheap. The major cost is in administering it.
  - Asooka 10y ago
    Or, I don't know, a second box on a second ISP line. That's what I do, but then again I live in a place where an internet connection with a static public IP address and several megabytes bw both ways is like 15$/mo (unlimited, of course).
    - dredmorbius 10y ago
      Keep in mind that for residential cable or DSL service, a given neighbourhood is very likely within a single circuit, and is subject to congestion from nearby connections (subject to their own caps). So a second line might not be quite so useful as all that, though it's almost certainly worth looking into. Multi-homing onto fully independent networks could be quite useful.
lima 10y ago
He only talks about his network connection. It might very well be hosted on a different box. "shell" means SSH, not the local shell.

by Camillo 10y ago

superkuh 10y ago

Running a web server on your home machine is the best way to be part of the internet rather than a consumer of services provided by corporations over the internet. It does sound like he needs a better QoS or bandwidth limiting mechanism though.

dredmorbius 10y ago
Or a second box. Running public services on my personal server ... is very old-school, but it gives me the heeby geebies to think of doing it now. Hardware is cheap cheap cheap. The major cost is in administering it.
- Asooka 10y ago
  Or, I don't know, a second box on a second ISP line. That's what I do, but then again I live in a place where an internet connection with a static public IP address and several megabytes bw both ways is like 15$/mo (unlimited, of course).
  - dredmorbius 10y ago
    Keep in mind that for residential cable or DSL service, a given neighbourhood is very likely within a single circuit, and is subject to congestion from nearby connections (subject to their own caps). So a second line might not be quite so useful as all that, though it's almost certainly worth looking into. Multi-homing onto fully independent networks could be quite useful.

lima 10y ago

He only talks about his network connection. It might very well be hosted on a different box. "shell" means SSH, not the local shell.