On 3/14/2013 10:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
Only data-center usage (facilities, bandwidth, power). It does not
include capital expenditures (servers, storage, network gear, etc.;
budgeted at $1.9M in 2012-13) nor ops engineering staffing, nor of
course any software engineering staffing or the basics of an
organizational support structure (management/administration, legal,
etc.).
I'm not technically inclined, but those numbers sound odd. Maybe I'm
missing something? The traffic ranking didn't go up nearly as substantially
in the last couple of years as the hosting and cap-ex mentioned above.
I'm not sure why you would use traffic ranking for financial analysis,
even the envelope-and-napkin kind of analysis we're engaging in here.
I'm pretty confident that just because Google has been sitting at #1 for
some time, it doesn't mean that their core operational costs have
remained flat over that period.
Aside from that, it's only recently that Wikimedia sites have approached
having the kind of redundancy and failover capabilities we've talked
about needing for a long time. That's at least one example of something
that can add pretty significant costs without having a material impact
on traffic (except in emergencies, of course).
--Michael Snow
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