I'm sure I
could easily fork enwp with just one machine, and handle a few hundred
visitors a day, or even in an hour. I believe Fred Bauder have made a
fork of a kind (yes I know it used a different method) and I guess he
do see the traffic stats and resource requirements to do that. ;-)
byte-byte,
grin
Some of Wikinfo's technical problems at ibiblio result from being on a
shared server, less than one server. I'm pretty sure one small server
would handle a full fledged setup. If there is high traffic there is high
potential for donations.
Fred