Wikiland gets Euro data center
The Register - Posted on: 23-06-2009
On Monday, the Wikimedia Foundation - the not-for-profit behind Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects - said it will set up about 50 servers inside an Amsterdam data center known as EvoSwitch. Under its pact with the Foundation, EvoSwitch will donate more than 300,000 euros of in-kind support, including bandwidth and hosting services.
By Cade Metz in San Francisco
All eight of Wikimedia's main projects - from Wikipedia to Wikiquotes and Wikinews - are hosted on 300 servers at a data center in Florida, where the Foundation was headquartered before moving to San Francisco, California. The EvoSwitch site will be used primarily for caching and backup.
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