Jimmy Wales
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah.
Where are the servers?
All over?
Yeah, kind of all over.
I mean, fundamentally in the U.S., but we do have caching servers and things.
Yeah, TNs.
Because you've got to deliver.
Or CDNs.
The speed of light to go all the way around the world is like a half a second, which is surprising, but it's true.
For me, it was surprising it's that slow.
I didn't realize that.
If you're loading a webpage, that's meaningful, and so we need to stage content near people.
But we have to be very thoughtful about where are those servers?
Are they in safe places and so on?
Yeah, I've not in the past worried much about that.
These days, I think you have to at least do a little bit of contingency planning and think these things through.
I don't think there's any imminent threat, but crazy times happen.
Yeah.
So I think this is a problem.
We've been fortunate that people are widely aware these days that like just seeing a photo.