Site operations timeline
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| Site operations | 2002-11 | System administrators temporarily disable the "view count" and "site" statistics, which are causing two database writes on every page view.
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| Site operations | 2003-06 | System administrators add a second server, the first database server separate from the web server. (The new machine was also the web server for non-English Wikipedia sites.)
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| Site operations | 2003-12 | (Around Christmas) A major computer crash takes wikipedia offline for a week and prompts Jimbo Wales to launch a fund-raising drive. In less than a week more than $30,000 is raised, thanks partly to another healthy dose of publicity on Slashdot. The money allows nine new computers to be purchased. These are brought online during January 2004, and as a result the location of the Wikimedia computers moves from San Diego to Florida, within an hour of Jimbo's home, allowing a better emergency response in the future. The editing and viewing experience is dramatically improved.
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| Site operations | 2004-02-12 | The website's server farms were moved from San Diego, California to Tampa, Florida.
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| Site operations | 2004-02 | The first full month at the new server location with all nine new machines available sees a massive increase in traffic to the site. Around 660GB of data are served in February from the English Wikipedia alone across 77 million hits. It is very likely that more than 1TB was served across all Wikipedias for the first time. En also now has over 50,000 registered usernames. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/stats/.
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| Site operations | 2005-06-07 | The bulk of the Wikimedia servers in Tampa, Florida are moved to a new facility across the street. All Wikimedia projects are offline during this time.
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| Site operations | 2006-02 | 4 new database servers and 40 application servers are purchased
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| Site operations | 2006-06 | A "big" network switch is purchased.
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| Site operations | 2006-07-24 | 20 new servers are purchased.
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| Site operations | 2006-09-28 | 68 new servers are purchased to keep up with growing traffic: 60 Apache servers, 6 database servers and 2 image/storage servers
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| Site operations | 2007-03-18 | 56 new servers (36 Apache and 20 Squid) and network equipment are purchased "to meet growing traffic demands to its websites and ensure continuing reliability".
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| Site operations | 2010-03-24 | Global outage (cooling failure and DNS)
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| Site operations | 2013-01-22 | Wikimedia sites move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia
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| Site operations | 2013-04-22 | Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB
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| Site operations | 2013-08-28 | HTTPS enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites
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