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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia
(Update on January 22nd, 2013, 20:00 (UTC): Our Operations team considers the migration to be over. Major disruption is no longer expected.) All Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia, may encounter...
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From duct tape to puppets: How a new data center became an opportunity to do...
Last week, the Wikimedia Foundation flipped a historic switch: we transitioned our main technical services to a shiny new data center in Ashburn, Virginia. For the first time since 2004, Wikimedia...
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How the Technical Operations team stops problems in their tracks
Last week, you read about how Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Operations team (“Ops”) spent hundreds or thousands of staff hours to refactor and automate all the services it provides, to prepare for...
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Wikimedia Foundation selects CyrusOne in Dallas as new data center
Our new data center will be co-located at CyrusOne in Dallas/Carrollton. It will be able to handle the full load of Wikimedia’s global traffic in case of an emergency, and will handle partial load at...
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Wikimedia sites will go into read-only mode twice this week
Photo by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a...
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Editing will temporarily pause for a failover test
Photo by Hong Zhang, public domain/CC0. During the next month, all Wikimedia wikis will be placed into read-only mode for a short period on two days. This action will allow the Wikimedia Foundation’s...
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How a new data center in Singapore is helping people access Wikipedia around...
Photo by Victor Grigas/Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 3.0. Unlike many other websites on the internet, the Foundation runs its own servers and edge distribution to deliver our projects’ content to the...
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The journey to open our first data center in South America
How the new center in São Paulo is already lowering Wikipedia load times. One second ago, people around the world accessed Wikipedia 5,500 times. What those people likely don’t know is that what...
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