[WikiEN-l] Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

[Cary Bass]

Carcharoth wrote:
> Hmm.
> "Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 —
> Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation
> describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web
> servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news. (link
> currently broken)"
>
> Link currently broken? Tsk.
>   
See below, from Jay Walsh (to foundation-l):

Jay Walsh wrote:
> Hi all - just a quick FYI in case you attempt to access the  
> Foundations two official blogs,
>
> We've had to shut both blogs down (they live in the same server space)  
> to investigate some tech/patch issues with wordpress.  We're hoping to  
> have things back up by the weekend or early next week at the latest.
>
> Wanted to let people know in case you were trying to access and were  
> having troubles.
>
> Thanks!
>