On 04/03/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
howard chen wrote:
so what kind of hardware/software are being used by wikipedia to host images or other resources?
NFS -> a box with a lot of disks -> lighttpd -> squid Terrifying, isn't it? :D
I got asked by a journalist to describe our technical setup the other day (after I'd pointed out we're the only top-20 website hosted by a nonprofit with therefore no resources by definition).
I said "In Tampa there's lots of big disks, these go to three big database servers - one for English Wikipedia, two for the other 200+ projects - and these go to hundreds of webservers and caches and proxies in Tampa, Paris, Amsterdam and Seoul."
Is that about right as a one-sentence description of our setup?
- d.