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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.'"

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  1. quick everybody by daveatneowindotnet · · Score: 1, Redundant

    read up on the Roman Republic now before Wikipedia gets Slashdotted

  2. Nice article but- by skylinkdave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wanted pictures :(