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Huge Traffic On Wikipedia's Non-Profit Budget
miller60 writes "'As a non-profit running one of the world's busiest web destinations, Wikipedia provides an unusual case study of a high-performance site. In an era when Google and Microsoft can spend $500 million on one of their global data center projects, Wikipedia's infrastructure runs on fewer than 300 servers housed in a single data center in Tampa, Fla.' Domas Mituzas of MySQL/Sun gave a presentation Monday at the Velocity conference that provided an inside look at the technology behind Wikipedia, which he calls an 'operations underdog.'"
How hard can it be to increase the budget or add more servers?
Just go to the Wikipedia page with those numbers and change them. You don't even need to have an account.
If you ever find yourself in a flamewar on Wikipedia you cannot win, bomb Tampa, Florida out of existence.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
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"It would be neat to have a deeper look at their budget to see how I can save money and boost performance at work."
Since they are using LAMP, obviously they could save money by following Microsoft's "Get The Facts" advice!
Nevermind, found it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=google
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
OTOH, if Wikipedia linked slashdot on every page slashdot would go down, if do to nothing else but bandwidth exhaustion.
Sounds like a dare to me. Gentlemen, start your packets!Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Screw that, I want a bank with six twos of performance. 22.2222%. Of course, any number of nines is easy to achieve. Want six nines? 9.99999% is easy.
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If only there were some way to put links on to Wikipedia!