Wikipedia’s Data Center Overheats

Data Center Knowledge (Mar 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

1. Wikipedia was offline yesterday after a cooling problem in Wikimedia’s European data center led to a heat condition that caused a server shutdown. The initial problem affected Wikipedia users, but the main English-language Wikipedia site was affected when the failover to WikiMedia’s Tampa data center didn’t go as planned. “Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves,” Wikimedia reported on its tech blog. (Read Full Article)

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