archnizzle - 11:53 pm on Nov 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Brett -- this is heartbreaking. I feel like my puppy died. Is there any way we can help?

- donations for new server equip
- custom software
- distributed computing resources (Akamai or SETI@Home style)

This is going to sound naive, but I'd like to think we could 'open source' a solution given that we have a lot of talented webmasters, distributed servers, the will, etc.

To the issue with syncing, maybe WW's own server(s) (How many exactly are there Brett?) would host fresh content, and a distributed network of member servers (I'll donate some cycles) form an Akamai-style distributed WW. Maybe P2P syncing could reduce the load on WW to update the mirrors? And since only 'changes' would need to be synced, it would be limited to new posts.

Hmmm....