[Foundation-l] Lost money

Wed Apr 19 20:35:58 UTC 2006

Brion Vibber wrote:

>> It's only a small website isn't it? I bet the costs of moving to a 
>> reliable, independent webhoster will easily pay off.
> 
> Ah, but if Wikipedia is down, the traffic requirements for it will be HUGE. So
> you can't think of it as a "small website". When we previously tried mirroring
> the donation page on Angela's site it simply collapsed under the weight very
> shortly afterwards.

Well, your are right. So we should find a reliable, independent 
Webhoster that can handle huge traffic spikes - it will still be cheaper 
than no donation site or running an extra server array. Or we just wait 
until there are more Wikimedia data centers around the world so the site 
can be mirrored in a complex way (btw: can you also mirror donations? ;-)

But otrs is only a small website isn't it?

Greetings, fun and thanks for bringing Wikipedia back again,
Jakob

P.S: I know that some people will hit me because of publically 
discussion this, but hey - it's no hidden secret that 
wikimediafoundation.org was down and that it's hosted together with 
Wikipedia!