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Wikipedia Servers: How Does It All Work?
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ratsbane
on Jan 6, 2010
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brown9-2
on Jan 6, 2010
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Anyone have a mirror? The site does not respond for me.
anApple
on Jan 6, 2010
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http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6df44nPiWlYJ:https://ro...
ratsbane
on Jan 6, 2010
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Argh. Down for me too now. Here's a page with an overview of the organization, not the actual list of servers I linked to in the title:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
ratsbane
on Jan 6, 2010
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This is a textbook for how to set up a high-traffic web site. It's remarkable because of the openness. I was surprised at how many Squid machines they're running, but really, that makes sense.
kordless
on Jan 6, 2010
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Apparently they didn't apply that recipe to this link.
jacquesm
on Jan 6, 2010
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Do you use the same level of infrastructure for your documentation server as you do for your 10's of millions of visitors / day production server?
chrisbolt
on Jan 6, 2010
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Same level? Just use the same infrastructure (put the same caching Squid servers in front).
tpyo
on Jan 6, 2010
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What does Wikipedia need $100'000s for?
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