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== How about the hardware? == === Current situation === :<!--To be rewritten. for now...-->See [[m:Wikimedia servers]]. === History of Wikipedia hardware === :A brief history of Wikipedia servers: :'''Phase I: January 2001 β January 2002''' :#One of [[Bomis]]'s servers hosted all Wikipedia wikis running on [[UseModWiki]] software :'''Phase II: January 2002 β July 2002''' :#One of Bomis's servers hosted all Wikipedia wikis; English and meta running on the php/mysql-based new software, all other languages on UseModWiki. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. :'''Phase IIIa: July 2002 β May 2003''' :#Wikipedia gets own server, running English Wikipedia and after a bit meta, with rewritten PHP software. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. :#One of Bomis's servers continues to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki, but most of the active ones are gradually moved over to the other server during this period. :'''Phase IIIb: May 2003 β Feb 2004''' :#Wikipedia's server is given the code name "pliny". It serves the database for all phase 3 wikis and the web for all but English. :#New server, code name "larousse", serves the web pages for the English Wikipedia only. Plans to move all languages' web serving to this machine are put on hold until load is brought down with more efficient software or larousse is upgraded to be faster. :#One of Bomis's servers continued to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki until it died. All are now hosted on pliny; a few more of the active ones have been gradually moved over to the new software, and an eventual complete conversion is planned. :'''Phase IIIc: Feb 2004 to Present''' :#Wikipedia gets a whole new set of servers, paid for through donations to the [[WP:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]. :#The new architecture has a new database server (suda), with a set of separate systems running Apache, as well as "squids" that cache results (to reduce the load). More details are at [[m:Wikimedia servers]]. :# [[m:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders|New servers bought]] as needed, bringing total number to about 350 servers.
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