Sure it exists, it is my daily work and bread and butter. I just feel like I am already sponsoring enough free hosting for a lot of chapters. Fortunately WMCH and WMAT picked up now and started hosting their own servers with me - but still, these are single servers used for many different purposes. But cheap, sure (100 EUR / month on a cloud infrastructure).
/Manuel
Am 14.04.2013 16:57, schrieb Thomas Morton:
This is going off topic (sorry) but I've been wondering for a while whether the chapters need to collaborate on a robust infrastructure for their technology needs - to increase capacity, reduce costs and deal with situations such as these (i.e. have expertise on hand and widely available).
At Wikimedia UK we're in the process of building a resilient infrastructure; with the modern capability of spinning up cheap servers behind load balancers there is no real need to have everything on a single piece of infrastructure. And the tools exist to scale horizontally if needed.