Sorry for the massive crossposting, but this is big good news.
The new colocation facility (Neutelligent/Hostway, Tampa) just called me and they are at this moment taking delivery of 9 new servers belonging to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
I'm heading over there now with Michael and we will be spending as long as it takes to install them.
It's more up to Brion and the other developers as to when we'll be able to go live on these. I'm just going to get them up and running and make sure that the latest (most secure) ssh is on them.
Since I'm on my way out the door and need a quick list of names
suidas beauvais glanwilla moreri hoffman bayle coronelli zwinger browne
are taken from "Notable encyclopedists before 1700", in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
--Jimbo