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+-   Wikipedia: Huge Traffic on a Non-Profit Budget-> on Tuesday June 24 2008, @10:43AM miller60

Submitted by miller60 on Tuesday June 24 2008, @10:43AM
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miller60 writes "As a non-profit running one of the world's busiest web destinations, Wikipedia provides an unusual case study of a high-performance site. In an era when Google and Microsoft can spend $500 million on one of their global data center projects, Wikipedia's infrastructure runs on fewer than 300 servers housed in a single data center in Tampa, Fla. Domas Mituzas of MySQL/Sun gave a presentation Monday at the Velocity conference that provided an inside look at the technology behind Wikipedia, which he calls an "operations underdog.""
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