Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday June 26, 2005 @07:28AM from the big-whoop dept.

Edit This Page writes "Jimmy Wales announced today that Yahoo! has ordered 23 HP servers for the Wikimedia Foundation. The three database servers are model DL 385, and will come with dual Athlons, 8GB of RAM, and 6x 146GB 15K RPM drives each. They will also provide rackspace and bandwidth. The announcement comes four months after Google's announcement of support, and two months after Yahoo's own. Google has not yet made their intentions clear. You can read more about the specifications of what will soon be a 100+ server cluster at the Wikimedia Servers wiki article."

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Re:wikihardware by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2005-06-26 07:42 · Score: 0, Troll

The trouble of course with wiki-hardware is that the system adminstration is left to the community.

That worries me sometimes too. I mean, I've yet to see this in the Britannica yet, and that's why I use the Britannica more often than Wikipedia for serious work.

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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Great Support for the Wikipedia Blog by ThreeE · 2005-06-26 08:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Hey this is great! Nice to see Yahoo! supporting the largest blog on the net!
Re:wikihardware by gardyloo · 2005-06-26 08:13 · Score: 0, Troll

Just like most Windows systems. ;)