Wikimedia servers - Wikimedia’s Meta wiki: Ever wanted to know exactly what hardware powers Wikipedia? Here’s a detailed list of their servers, their CPU stats, and the OS they’re running (all RedHat 9 or Fedora, it looks like).
To see how these servers handle the load, check out the Ganglia Cluster Stats. Here’s the budget for hardware — they’re about to spend another $20,000 and that leaves them flat broke from the wave of generosity from a year ago.
I swear, if I won the lottery, I’d give my first million to Wikipedia. For now, $25 will have to do.
Letter to our readers and contributors: This is either heartbeaking or inspiring, I'm not sure which. It turns out that Wikipedia is failing under the load created by its popularity. ...the three servers that currently host all of Wikimedia's projects in all languages are simply not enough, especially as two…