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What happens when there is a major earthquake in the bay area though? Not being geographically dispersed seems like a large risk.
They have backups in Canada and Egypt.
partial* backups^
Internet Archive Infrastructure
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Re: Internet Archive Infrastructure
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The original comment was "the Archive is painfully slow", the reply to that was "for me it's always quite fast", so I gave it some actual hard data explaining that 90s is in fact quite slow and maybe even painfully so in 2021. I have absolutely no idea how you got from that discussion to a hypothetical where the Archive doesn't exist. Obviously 90s is better than it not existing. I even said in my comment that it was…
> Why did you even make this comment? I find it crass to gripe about Archive being slow. It's still much better than nothing. If folks want it to be faster than can donate rather than gripe, eh?
I wasn't griping, I was responding to someone saying they had no speed issues. I donate $5/mo and have done for years, thanks for asking.
Re: Internet Archive Infrastructure
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why did you even make this comment? I find it crass to gripe about Archive being slow. It's still much better than nothing. If folks want it to be faster than can donate rather than gripe, eh?
I wasn't griping, I was responding to someone saying they had no speed issues. I donate $5/mo and have done for years, thanks for asking.
Not you, kilroy123.
Good for you. Seriously (no joke, no sarcasm.) Good for you, that's awesome. (And yeah, that was the obvious question: "Have you tried giving them money?" but I wasn't feeling quite that salty.)
Well met. Sorry for being a grouch.
Re: Internet Archive Infrastructure
#114Probably a good place to ask: is there a reason why Wayback Machine's archives often take forever to load? Most of content on IA loads pretty fast, so WB is a notable exception.
why