A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure

jmke · 24th June 2008, 23:36

The site started as a Perl CGI script running on single server in 2001. Wikipedia now has 200 application servers, 20 database servers and 70 servers dedicated to Squid cache servers.

Wikipedia is powered by the MediaWiki software, which was originally written to run Wikipedia and is now an open source project. MediaWiki uses PHP running on a MySQL database. Mituzas said MySQL instances range from 200 to 300 gigabytes. In addition to Squid, Wikipedia uses Memcached and the Linux Virtual Server load balancer. Wikipedia also uses database sharding to set up master-slave relationships between databases.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/a...structure.html

24th June 2008, 23:36	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure The site started as a Perl CGI script running on single server in 2001. Wikipedia now has 200 application servers, 20 database servers and 70 servers dedicated to Squid cache servers. Wikipedia is powered by the MediaWiki software, which was originally written to run Wikipedia and is now an open source project. MediaWiki uses PHP running on a MySQL database. Mituzas said MySQL instances range from 200 to 300 gigabytes. In addition to Squid, Wikipedia uses Memcached and the Linux Virtual Server load balancer. Wikipedia also uses database sharding to set up master-slave relationships between databases. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/a...structure.html __________________

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
A Peek Inside Thermaltake's Level 10 Case	jmke	WebNews	4	9th June 2009 17:36
Inside Intel's Fab - Video introduces chip production plant	jmke	WebNews	0	25th February 2009 19:01
RS880 chipset has RV620 inside	jmke	WebNews	0	2nd December 2008 11:47
Inside Newegg NJ: A New Warehouse	jmke	WebNews	0	20th May 2008 18:20
How To Install and Run Ubuntu Linux Inside Windows	Sidney	WebNews	0	31st January 2008 20:24
Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter	jmke	WebNews	0	28th January 2007 16:31
AMD’s Premium 4x4 Platform to Use Server Infrastructure	jmke	WebNews	1	1st October 2006 21:45
Inside harddisk	slvrl7	General Madness - System Building Advice	4	5th August 2006 18:15
PC inside football case mod - the Bootiful	jmke	WebNews	0	24th July 2006 19:11
Olympus In Race To Launch Small Disposable Camera To Look Inside Body	jmke	WebNews	2	3rd December 2004 19:05