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This is an archived page preserved as part of Wikipedia's technical history. The archived discussion on this page covers the architecture when Wikipedia was using a single database server with a borrowed backup slave for redundancy. This page predates most of Wikipedia's tremendo…

…uild. But for a number of reasons, including the early explosive success of the Wikipedia , that was not easy to do. It was unfortunately sailing at full speed in a high wind and taking it apart didn’t seem practicable. We have, however, now 95% done that. We hope, within a very …