Site Speed

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Sometimes the speed of the site slows and this will need addressing in the long term.

Recently an article appeared in slashdot about the starwars wiki and this generated more traffic than usual and Jason, the technical guy was able to get three servers on line to carry the load.

It remains to be seen in the future how the existing infrastructure will cope with the clicking of a lot of psychologists.

However Wickia have been responsible for coping with the growth of Wikipedia up to its 5000,000 pages in a number of languages. So they do have a track record of taking a site though fast growth and high use phases.

I would be interested to know how the financial model for wikicities is structured. If click through earns advertising revenue have they factored in a proportion of that money to improve the infrastructure to support further groth. One would imagine this is only common sense and from this perspective it is in Wikicities interest to keep access speeds up to support high volume use. People wont stay or access if they are put off by a big wait.

It has to be said of course that it is difficult to know how much the slowtime is due to intervening infrastructure. Clearly it seems to be quicker when America sleeps, just like the rest of the net.

My own strategy has been to edit and save, with time to spare, rather than trying to do something at the last second - its better for the blood pressure that way!!!

Please use discussion page for feedback of experience on this issue.