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== Overall system architecture ==

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*[[Hardware ordered May 2004]]: 5 new servers. Replacement for Geoffrin database server (ariel), four 2.8GHz P4 general purpose machines (maurus, rabanus, yongle) and a pair of 250GB ATA drives. Based on [[upgrade discussion April 2004]].

*[[Hardware ordered January 2004]]: 9 new servers: 8 multipurpose machines (bart, bayle, browne, coronelli, isidore, moreri, vincent, zwinger) and 1 database server (suda).

*Donated: three for Paris squids, extra RAM for them purchased :) :)

== Server list ==

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==Donations==

While Wikipedia is free in both the "free speech" and "no charge" senses of the word, running the web site does cost money. You can help with purchasing new server hardware by donating to the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]]: '''http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising'''

==Status and problems==

You can check one of the following sites if you want to know if the Wikimedia servers are overloaded, or if you just want to see how they are doing.

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**11/2004 [http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/ LISA 2004] PDF/SXI

**04/2005 [http://www.danga.com/words/2005_mysqlcon/ MySQLCon 2005] PDF/PPT/SXI

** journals to watch for system details: [http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=brad Brad (Fitzpatrick) ] [http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lj_backend lj_backend] [http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lj_maintenance lj_maintenance]

*[http://www.search3w.com/Siteresources/data/MediaArchive/files/Google%2015000%20servers%20secrest.pdf Google cluster architecture] (PDF)

*[http://www.vbmysql.com/uc2004/ MySQL User's Conference 2004 blog highlights]