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Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by dreamcompiler on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:53AM (#18919511)
Wait, what?

> XS4ALL hosts the the European copy of the Internet Archive since 2004. When I was in their datacenter I saw the box (it has a nice Internet Archive label), but did not realize that it was a complete copy.

Is this still true? No way does the IA fit in "a box" today. A building maybe, but not a box.

Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by detaro on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:01AM (#18919555)
Even back in 2008, it was described as two racks worth of machines: https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080903/full/455016a.html

Still, not sure this still exists or what scope it has - I thought establishing a full secondary mirror was something the IA wanted to have, but didn't achieve yet.

Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by svdgraaf on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:34AM (#18919951)
I have seen this somewhere around 2014 when I got a tour of one of their datacenters, it definitely was more than one box, iirc it was a couple of 4u boxes, maybe half a rack high. It think it was marked with the archive.org logo.
Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by consp on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:57AM (#18919532)
This is most likely only the website archive and not the media. It can be highly compressible (as it is html). I would not be surprised if a large rack filled with 4U boxs filled to the max with drives could house much of that.
Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by jtwaleson on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:21PM (#18923395)
I was colocating in that DC. At least till my final visit a year ago the 2 IA racks were still there.

I've also been to the library of Alexandria in Egypt where the IA has much more racks IIRC.

Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable by lucb1e on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:37AM (#18921698)
See the link, that post is from last summer. Seems quite up to date.