Wikipedia donating its old servers

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Post by chip » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 4:02 PM UTC

Wikipedia donating its old servers
blog.wikimedia.org

Re: Wikipedia donating its old servers

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Post by yellowbkpk » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

The US branch of OpenStreetMap took donation of several of these machines last year. They're still serving us well! Thanks Rob and Wikimedia!

Re: Wikipedia donating its old servers

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Post by Bud » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 5:19 PM UTC

Update just posted:

At 36 requests and counting, I imagine we may now be nearly out of servers. Until each request is reviewed, I am not sure. Consider the entry period ‘soft closed’. The email address still works for now, so feel free to send in requests. It cannot hurt. ~ RobH on 2011-06-17 @ 12:35 EST

Re: Wikipedia donating its old servers

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Post by cullenking » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 5:25 PM UTC

yellowbkpk wrote: post #2

The US branch of OpenStreetMap took donation of several of these machines last year. They're still serving us well! Thanks Rob and Wikimedia!

As well as me and many other people who love and use the OSM project!

Re: Wikipedia donating its old servers

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Post by VanceRefrig » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

Well that's pretty neat!

Re: Wikipedia donating its old servers

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Post by killerdark » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC

The value of an out of warranty server is practically $Null. Any set of servers in a single space will require active cooling. Since processing power and storage multiply over time, it means you end up overspending on energy for a what now is a very limited amount of processing power. And I'm not even going to mention downtime due to hardware failure and rising cost of upgrades over time. The most valuable part of this donation by far is the fact that they pay for the shipping.