It would be especially neat if we could get at least a little bit of server space somewhere in Africa, Australia, and South America.
Having said that, it would also be easy/nice to get server space in California or somewhere else in the Western US (Google would be California, would it not?)
I think that it's always best to have everything distributed over multiple locations in case of a disaster, natural or otherwise (this way, we won't have to worry about Wikipedia in hurricanes, and if one location gets broken into/burns down/explodes/disappears mysteriously in a puff of steam, Wikipedia will not have problems because of it).
Mark
On 4/14/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Andrew Lih wrote:
The lead blog story on Alexa's front page today is about Wikipedia surpassing NY Times in terms of traffic rank. Traffic has spiked upwards in the last month, and sits at #66 for today.
I've just ordered another 20 servers for our Florida cluster, and with the recently announced Yahoo deal, as well as deals we are working on with some European educational/governmental organizations and another major search engine, we will within the next few months more than double our total capacity, and expand from 2 data centers (Florida, Paris) to 5 or 6 (Florida, somewhere in Asia, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and another).
Pretty neat.
:-)
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