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Over at the collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers Stack Overflow, people from the trade are discussing the most interesting server names they've encountered. Server administrators can give human-readable names to their machines so that they are easily distinguishable from other network locations.

Wikipedia will be using the Ubuntu Linux distribution to power its sizable server infrastructure, report numerous sources. The popular online knowledge repository will try to create a homogeneous server environment in an attempt to reduce complexity and costs. The Linux flavor of choice is the Hardy Heron 8.04 long-term support version.

3.9 million new websites appeared on the world wide web last month, according to Netcraft's June 2008 Web Server Survey. The highlights: "The largest gain [is] at ThePlanet.com, where 632,000 new sites maintain its position as the 6th largest hosting company in the world. A large switch to the Bahamas was seen at Secure Hosting Limited, where 1.2 million sites were gained from Nameview Inc. The offshore hosting company offers web hosting and dedicated servers from its data centres located in the Bahamas and Jamaica, and even provides dual-homed hosting for a 100% uptime guarantee."