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Wikipedia Servers: How Does It All Work?

• ratsbane 17y ago
  This is a textbook for how to set up a high-traffic web site. It's remarkable because of the openness. I was surprised at how many Squid machines they're running, but really, that makes sense.
  • kordless 17y ago
    Apparently they didn't apply that recipe to this link.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      Do you use the same level of infrastructure for your documentation server as you do for your 10's of millions of visitors / day production server?
      • chrisbolt 17y ago
        Same level? Just use the same infrastructure (put the same caching Squid servers in front).
• brown9-2 17y ago
  Anyone have a mirror? The site does not respond for me.
  • ratsbane 17y ago
    Argh. Down for me too now. Here's a page with an overview of the organization, not the actual list of servers I linked to in the title: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
  • anApple 17y ago
    http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6df44nPiWlYJ:https://rocket.ryerson.ca/http/wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles+http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6df44nPiWlYJ:https://ro...
• tpyo 17y ago
  What does Wikipedia need $100'000s for?