Andre Engels wrote:
2007/1/2, David Strauss david@fourkitchens.com:
Storing Wikipedia is not the problem:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/What_we_need_the_money_for
I think this says little about what part is paid on storage. In particular, there is a 'goal for hardware' section which does not say to what extent it is storage that we need the hardware for. More informative I find http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers - Wikimedia currently runs 240 computers. Of these, 14 are in use to store data on, and of those 14, 12 are 'slave' database servers. And the only reason we have two masters, is for geographical reasons: One is in Florida, the other in Korea. In short, it still fits all on a single computer, although we have that one computer a dozen times over for easier database access. There's however almost 20 times as many computers working to get this data out to the world.
Please see the posts Domas made on 2006-12-28 with the subject "Re: [Foundation-l] new site notice now ready." They discuss how the cost of storage relates to other costs. Summary: storage is cheap.