Wikipedia’s Datacenter

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A Look Inside Wikipedia’s Infrastructure

50,000 http requests per second

80,000 SQL 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

This article tells you how do they manage such a feat and that too through being a non-profit operating through just 300 servers from just one location.

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