On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
When Bomis was hosting it, it was just a handful of servers. Volunteers wouldn't be able to fork the site and keep things going at anywhere near the level they are at now - if the WMF doesn't have the funds, neither will the community. You can't host a top 5 website on a server in your spare room.
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Naturally. A collapse would be a collapse. It wouldn't die though, just need a good rest[1]. That's my point.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens