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Originally Posted by DPS Computing
Wonder how much extra load that puts on Wikipedias servers!  |
Here are few metrics on Wikipedia's operations: - 50,000 http requests per second
- 80,000 SQL Server queries per second
- 7 million registered users
- 18 million page objects in the English version
- 250 million page links
- 220 million revisions
- 1.5 terabytes of compressed data
Source: http://www. datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jun/24/a_look_inside_wikipedias_infrastructure.html
I too wondering when Google and Microsoft spending $500 million on one of their global data center projects how a non-profit organization manage it all.
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