Thursday, July 05, 2012

Wikipedia: Efficient Servers

An appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales - Wikimedia Foundation:
"Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. 
We (wikipedia) have 679 servers and 140 staff.
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 492 million different people every month 
– with billions of page views."

It is interesting how much can be done with relatively small number of Wikipmedia Servers .
So it is not only about "large number of commodity servers", as pushed by "Cloud providers".

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