wikiservice.at or prowiki.org?

[jcc7]

In article <dua0e3$lnd$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
>
>Wiki4D is accessible via URLs in two very different domain names:
>
>http://www.wikiservice.at/wiki4d/wiki.cgi
>http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi

You're right.

Someone else brought up this point before:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/4223.html

>I've been using the first of these, probably because it was the first 
>one I discovered and it just stuck that way.

For a time there, I was using both www.wikiservice.at and www.prowiki.org
without realizing it. I couldn't figure out why I was having to tell the wiki
who I was so often. ;)

>Both are identical and equally up to date AFAICT. 

Yep.

>And the homepages
>http://www.wikiservice.at/
>http://www.prowiki.org/
>
>are very different, so it doesn't look like a simple case of two domains 
>aliased to one server.  So why the two addresses?

Helmut explanins some:
http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/4249
http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/4247

I guess it's good for Helmut's business to provide options? I think he provided
more details somewhere else, but I couldn't find it.

>Is either of them the "preferred" one?  Or are they set up for faster 
>access in different geographical locations?  Or what?

For what it's worth, I think that prowiki.org is preferred. That seemed to be
the consensus when this issue was brought up the first time. I've tried to use
prowiki.org links when I recommend a Wiki4D page and that's what Digital Mars
uses for the comment pages.

I don't think the name of the server affects the speed at all. Each server is
probably in the same building (if they're not virtual servers anyway).

jcc7