Google Gift Means More Servers for Wikipedia

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1. The Wikimedia Foundation, which has mastered the art of running one of the world’s busiest web sites on a lightweight infrastructure, will use a $2 million grant from Google to expand its data centers. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, houses its entire infrastructure on about 350 servers in data centers in Florida and Amsterdam. The grant from Google, which can spend more than half a billion dollars on a single data center, will help beef up Wikipedia’s back end. Wikimedia’s spokesman Jay Walsh said that expanding the foundation’s data centers will be the first ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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