Hi Max,
On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 17:30 (-0700), Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi Jim.
> On Sun, 2026-01-04 at 10:59 -0400, Jim wrote:
>> Either would be good, although there might be things (speed, bandwidth,
>> latency) to be said for having one on the west side of the pond. (I assume
>> tug.org is hosted somewhere in North America.)
> That would indeed be a reasonable assumption, but tug.org is actually
> hosted in Germany.
Huh. That's interesting (to me). (And thanks for gracefully saying my
assumption was reasonable... my assumption was so strong I didn't bother
doing a traceroute to see where the packets went. Duh!)
> There's about 200ms latency between me (in western Canada) and tug.org,
Only about 120 ms from here in the (other) Far East (i.e., Nova Scotia).
Still, after a while 100ms here and 100ms there adds up to serious money. :-)
> which is pretty annoying for ssh, but not really noticable for web
> pages.
True.
> My personal server is hosted in the east coast US, and has about 75ms
> latency to me.
Only 34 ms here. ;-)
In any case, a mirror would still be nice.
One thing that just occurred to me... if the mirroring only happens in one
direction, it wouldn't be good if people (absent-mindedly) updated a copy
of the wiki when they really wanted to update the original, so I wonder how
easy it would be for the mirrors to disallow the editing feature.
Alternatively, in principle updates could propagate from mirrors back to
the original, but my gut tells me that opens up huge admin issues. (My gut
is occasionally wrong (location of tug.org is a case in point), but even
with my recent rash assumption, I'm doubling down and believing my gut
again.)
Cheers.
Jim
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