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Huge Traffic On Wikipedia's Non-Profit Budget

Posted by timothy on from the optimizing-smartitude dept.

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.'"

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  1. f1rst p0st ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    f1rst p0st b1tch3s !!

    1. Re:f1rst p0st ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I bet that wasn't your first demonstration of FAIL, either.

  2. Lego instructions online by rbeattie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's a few spots on the web where you can find PDFs of the instructions to make older Lego kits and indexes of pieces you need. Brickset: http://www.brickset.com/ and Brickley's Words: http://www.br-eng.info/words/index.php/search-lego-instructions/ are two of them, and I'm sure there's tons of others as well. Once you've purchased half a dozen kits or so, you've got more than enough pieces to create stuff from other kits.

    My son and I play the Lego Star Wars video game together, and then make the "mini kits" you gather in the game in real life using the instructions online: http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?subtheme=Mini%20Building%20Set .

    Using your imagination is fun too of course, but every time I follow one of these "official" instructions for a kit, I learn a new way to put bricks and other pieces together to make cool stuff. We can then use these new techniques to make even cooler things on our own.

    -Russ

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    Me