Hello, I'm Alejandro Sánchez, erchache on irc, system administrator (sure? ;P) of Enciclopedia Libre, fork of es.wikipedia.org.
We are planning to expand our system. We are in negotiations with some universities of Spain to make a global farm. I think to install a linux virtual server, on a machine or more, with ip-ip encapsulated mode, to be able to connect any machine to our farm without problems about differences network connection.
I never buy a "real" server before and i dont know all aspect of this. For this reason I ask to this channel for requirements on:
- Linux virtual server.
- Apache+php+memcache.
- Mysql server.
- Mysql slave.
- Squid.
And a good network filesystem to interconect all machines, ours and the others machines.
See on http://enciclopedia.us.es/webalizer, to see real stadistic of our site, hangs and breakdowns are include ;D
Im very paranoid about security, but i dont want to mount a system who only runs to make DoS attack for crackers, you know? ;P
All sugestion are welcome, except to join es.wikipedia....Sorry :( All users of our comunity vote from this explicitly.....
We are planning to talk with all universities which join to us to add mediawiki on studies plan on computer science, Literature, and more. To get more programmers and users, to our projects, all Wikipedia and Enciclopedia Libre.
Well this is all for the moment, and i'm waiting for your replies.