On Thu, 5 May 2005, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Florida - 44-ish servers now, 20 more apache/squid machines to be
installed within the next two weeks (10 already arrived and Chad will
install very soon). 2 more database servers have been order, as well as
a JBOD-thingy.
It seems that the major problem is Apache processing power... so, if
offered a choice of free hardware, go with the max CPU power/Unit
possible - dual CPUs, dual cores if available and OS support is
there (Intel/AMD chips were released a few days ago..). Cost per CPU goes
up though.
Split wikipedias between the major datacenters - English in Florida,
Japanese in South Korea, German in Europe, the rest go wherever they fit :-)
Each major colo should have a replicating system like the current Florida
setup - master DB, slave DBs, apaches, squids.
I second the other requests about better backups, the current strategy (a
backup every few weeks and relying on the slave DBs in case of problems)
seems quite weak.
Alfio