Mailing List Archive: What server does Wikipedia run on?

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Christian List wrote:
> There is a journalist from a danish technical weekly newspaper writing an
> article about Wikipedia.
> I can answer most of his questions myself, but I need some help on these:
>
> - What server does Wikipedia run on?
> I need some details about CPU, speed, RAM, harddrive and stuff like that.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technical_FAQ

Hard drive is an IBM DDYS-T36950N.

> - What software is running on the server?
> I know we use Apache, MySQL and PHP, but what versions?

Apache 1.2.26 (we don't use SSL, so haven't yet upgraded for the SSl bug.)
MySQL 3.2.54
PHP 4.2.2

> Do we use more programs?

TeX math rendering uses TeX, Imagemagick, and ghostscript.

> - How many hits a day does Wikipedia get?
> Preferably I would like to know the numbers for the Danish Wikipedia and the
> English Wikipedia.
> I have seen http://www.wikipedia.org/stats/ but does that include the Danish
> Wikipedia?

That's just for the English wiki, and a little out of date. I'll run
updated stats in a bit...

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)