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Wait, what? > XS4ALL hosts the the European copy of the Internet Archive since 2004. When I was in their datacenter I saw the box (it has a nice Internet Archi
by dreamcompiler 8y ago
Wait, what?
> XS4ALL hosts the the European copy of the Internet Archive since 2004. When I was in their datacenter I saw the box (it has a nice Internet Archive label), but did not realize that it was a complete copy.
Is this still true? No way does the IA fit in "a box" today. A building maybe, but not a box.
- consp 8y agoThis is most likely only the website archive and not the media. It can be highly compressible (as it is html). I would not be surprised if a large rack filled with 4U boxs filled to the max with drives could house much of that.
- detaro 8y agoEven back in 2008, it was described as two racks worth of machines: https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080903/full/455016a.html https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080903/full/455016a.html Still, not sure this still exists or what scope it has - I thought establishing a full secondary mirror was something the IA wanted to have, but didn't achieve yet.
- svdgraaf 8y agoI have seen this somewhere around 2014 when I got a tour of one of their datacenters, it definitely was more than one box, iirc it was a couple of 4u boxes, maybe half a rack high. It think it was marked with the archive.org logo.
- lucb1e 8y agoSee the link, that post is from last summer. Seems quite up to date.
- jtwaleson 8y agoI was colocating in that DC. At least till my final visit a year ago the 2 IA racks were still there. I've also been to the library of Alexandria in Egypt where the IA has much more racks IIRC.