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[–] iopq 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world's highest trafficked websites

[–] calcopiritus 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects

[–] calcopiritus 6 points 6 months ago

I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)