On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 04:39:07PM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
It would be especially neat if we could get at least a
little bit of
server space somewhere in Africa, Australia, and South America.
Having said that, it would also be easy/nice to get server space in
California or somewhere else in the Western US (Google would be
California, would it not?)
I vote Washington state. I'd kinda like to move there, eventually,
anyway.
Ha ha, only serious.
I think that it's always best to have everything
distributed over
multiple locations in case of a disaster, natural or otherwise (this
way, we won't have to worry about Wikipedia in hurricanes, and if one
location gets broken into/burns down/explodes/disappears mysteriously
in a puff of steam, Wikipedia will not have problems because of it).
Mark
On 4/14/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
> Andrew Lih wrote:
>
> >The lead blog story on Alexa's front page today is about Wikipedia
> >surpassing NY Times in terms of traffic rank. Traffic has spiked
> >upwards in the last month, and sits at #66 for today.
> >
> >
>
> I've just ordered another 20 servers for our Florida cluster, and with
> the recently announced Yahoo deal, as well
> as deals we are working on with some European educational/governmental
> organizations and another major search
> engine, we will within the next few months more than double our total
> capacity, and expand from 2 data centers
> (Florida, Paris) to 5 or 6 (Florida, somewhere in Asia, Amsterdam,
> Brussels, Paris, and another).
>
> Pretty neat.
>
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