[Foundation-l] Technical aspects of forking (was: 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter)

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Sat Sep 17 16:04:51 UTC 2011


> On 17 September 2011 15:50, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> My first instincts for de.wikipedia would be to note down
>> de.wikipedia's usage statistics, get a bunch of techies together, and
>> all go have a nice chat with say hetzner.de, to figure out roughly what
>> things will cost. You can always start a bit small and work your way
>> up.
>
>
> Starting small is *most definitely* the way to go. Citizendium burned
> through enough funding for *20 years* in three years by ridiculously
> overestimating their server needs.
>
>
> - d.
>

May I suggest a Apple Mini Mac with the Lion server, loaded with plenty
of memory and storage of course.

Fred





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