Wikipedia Outage

Just recovering from Wikimania where I moderated at least five sessions, and will post more about my post-conference experiences. But the news of the day is the brief outage of Wikipedia. From the Wikimedia Foundation press release (UPDATE: link here):

Wikimedia Foundations were offline today for 2.5 hours due to a dispute between the Foundation’s hosting provider Hostway and their IP transit provider Cogent. The Foundation is assured that this event is in no way related to Wikipedia or any other Foundation project, but rather sole an issue between the two companies.

Foundation engineers worked quickly to restore services The Foundation has secured new networking space and is working to prevent a recurrence of any similar interruption.

“This was an unfortunate case of collateral damage” said Brad Patrick of
the Wikimedia Foundation. “It was a shock that something like this could happen to us without warning. We will do everything necessary to make sure our users have continuous access to our projects.”

Wikipedia is so now firmly in the top 20 web sites in the world, they should make sure to get redundant network connections or have quick rollover to other sites in the Netherlands or Korea.

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