Wikimedia Goes To Amsterdam
Eric Calouro | Jun 23, 2009 | Comments 0
Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind such projects as Wikipedia, have announced they they’re moving in approximately 50 servers into a Dutch datacenter by the name of EvoSwitch. EvoSwitch have also announced that they will be donating roughly 300,000 euros ($415,400 US) in support, bandwidth, and the likes.
Currently, Wikimedia Foundation currently runs its services off of 300 servers located in Florida. The 50 additional servers in Amsterdam are expected for uses such as caching and back-ups, and should also reduce response times for Wikimedia projects in Europe.
As expected, Wikimedia Foundation is also planning to expand the resources in said Dutch datacenter as required.
Seeing as how Wikimedia is non-profit, it will be interesting to see what they will do to increase funding to support the European expansion.
[ source: The Register ]
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