6 ms·

Wikipedia donating its old servers

• yellowbkpk 15y ago
  The US branch of OpenStreetMap took donation of several of these machines last year. They're still serving us well! Thanks Rob and Wikimedia!
  • cullenking 15y ago
    As well as me and many other people who love and use the OSM project!
• Bud 15y ago
  Update just posted: At 36 requests and counting, I imagine we may now be nearly out of servers. Until each request is reviewed, I am not sure. Consider the entry period ‘soft closed’. The email address still works for now, so feel free to send in requests. It cannot hurt. ~ RobH on 2011-06-17 @ 12:35 EST
• killerdark 15y ago
  The value of an out of warranty server is practically $Null. Any set of servers in a single space will require active cooling. Since processing power and storage multiply over time, it means you end up overspending on energy for a what now is a very limited amount of processing power. And I'm not even going to mention downtime due to hardware failure and rising cost of upgrades over time. The most valuable part of this donation by far is the fact that they pay for the shipping.
• VanceRefrig 15y ago
  Well that's pretty neat!