On 04/03/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
howard chen wrote:
> so what kind of hardware/software are being used
by wikipedia to host
> images or other resources?
NFS -> a box with a lot of disks -> lighttpd
-> squid
Terrifying, isn't it? :D
I got asked by a journalist to describe our technical setup the other
day (after I'd pointed out we're the only top-20 website hosted by a
nonprofit with therefore no resources by definition).
I said "In Tampa there's lots of big disks, these go to three big
database servers - one for English Wikipedia, two for the other 200+
projects - and these go to hundreds of webservers and caches and
proxies in Tampa, Paris, Amsterdam and Seoul."
Is that about right as a one-sentence description of our setup?
- d.