Cool. I'll probably give something like that a try, which will be my first. I'm on AWS. How do you like Linode?
al ________________________________ From: David Gerard <[email protected]> To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] BTW, this is why you put a cache in front of MediaWiki On 3 April 2013 20:05, Al Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Gerard <[email protected]> >> So we got Redditdotted yesterday. >> http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evolution_being_a_hoax/> >> This is our traffic: >> http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png >> And the wiki kept right on ticking. > Good job on your preparedness. So, what's your cache setup? One 4GB Linode with Apache/MySQL/Lucene, two 1GB Linodes with Squid and a load-balancer in front of the lot. Pretty simple. I'd personally have gone with Varnish, but Squid is fine too. The boxes are Ubuntu 12.04 servers, just using the distro version of squid3. MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching - d. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
