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Technically, Wikipedia is a PHP+MySQL wiki with an echeloned cache system (squid). http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers http://meta.wikimedia.org/wi
by gritzko 16y ago
Technically, Wikipedia is a PHP+MySQL wiki with an echeloned cache system (squid).
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
They currently try to expand into video, but IMO there are some bottlenecks of social nature. The current average video on Wikipedia is 5-10MB, retrieved by the user in 15% of cases, so nothing special at all, technically.
The mass of content is no longer growing exponentially, more like steady-state. The user base is slowly expanding, AFAIK.
- axod 16y agoUsing PHP+MySQL for something where the vast majority of pages are static seems a bad design choice. I guess the caching can aid with that, but it seems a better idea to optimize for reads in the first place.