You grossly underestimate how much money goes into hosting Wikipedia. They're most certainly at the scale where physical boxes are cheaper than EC2 and others.

You grossly underestimate how much money goes into hosting Wikipedia. They're most certainly at the scale where physical boxes are cheaper than EC2 and others. http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles