Daniel Mayer wrote:
When are the servers going to be upgraded?
There was an unconscionable delay from a supplier in shipping the CPUs. However, I got notice just now that these have been shipped, either last night or this morning. I asked for an upgrade to overnight shipping, but I don't think they did that, despite my frustration.
Therefore, I think the last parts will arrive either Friday, Saturday, or Monday. I'll have Jason drive down to San Diego Monday or Tuesday (after we've confirmed that the parts are in, of course) and that'll be the big day of upgrades.
As a part of the press release strategy, I want to emphasis our capital campaign to buy a big database server for the backend. It is my considered belief that Wikipedia can handle as much as 10x the current traffic when we use our two upgraded servers solely as webservers, with a big and fast db server as backend.
--Jimbo