Hi all, The web server is back now. Of course it managed to crash while I was vacationing.
Best wishes, Taco > On 5 Jan 2026, at 08:09, Henning Hraban Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 05.01.26 um 06:42 schrieb Max Chernoff via ntg-context: >> Probably the easiest solution would be to just have a fully-static site >> that's automatically updated once a week or so by using something like >> this >> https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner > > Yes, also IMO hosting a static ZIM container makes the most sense. > I looked into the options for Mediawiki mirroring, and this is reasonably > easy and doesn’t require a strong server. > > Editing can wait for a week, lookup shouldn’t. > >> I think that the only options to allow writes anywhere are for all the >> systems to use the same database (bringing us back to a single point of >> failure), to allow writes to different mirrors to get out of sync (which >> seems like a terrible idea), or to set up some complex >> clustering/sharding scheme (which sounds much too complicated). So I >> think that having the mirrors be read-only is the only feasible >> solution, which is probably for the best, since I'd personally much >> rather just host a bunch of static pages than to run a database and a >> bunch of other software. > It’s possible to run Mediawiki over a whole farm of servers (Wikipedia had > 390 a few years ago), and the "single database" can also be spread well (I > managed a MySQL master-slave setup around 2005…), but I don’t think that’s > necessary. I’d also avoid running ConTeXt “in the open” like behind the wiki > (and for COW). > > Hraban > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ — Taco Hoekwater E: [email protected] genderfluid (all pronouns) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
