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Encyclopedia of Life’s Servers Drown in Traffic

February 27th, 2008

AP - “Soon after the Encyclopedia of Life went online Tuesday, its servers crashed due to massive — and anticipated — interest from the public. Despite the outage, the encyclopedia’s chairman said he’s thrilled with the attention.”

More on Encyclopedia of Life

February 27th, 2008

The Daily Green - “The first 30,000 species have been added to an ambitious on-line catalog of the world’s diverse life forms, the Encyclopedia of Life.”