Case Study: Wikimedia Foundation achieves reliable, high-capacity bandwidth to support billions of page views with LeaseWeb

Wikimedia Foundation - Customer Case Study

LeaseWeb, a leading and highly stable hosting provider (the largest in the Netherlands) with exceptional network bandwidth, partnered with the Wikimedia Foundation to address Wikimedia’s massive scale and availability requirements. Wikimedia—operator of Wikipedia with over 30 million articles and roughly 530 million unique monthly visitors—needed scalable, redundant bandwidth and superior connectivity to handle billions of page views, growing visual content needs, and to spread risk beyond its own Amsterdam fiber network.

LeaseWeb responded by sponsoring a dedicated 2 Gbps capacity for three years, aligning with Wikimedia’s open‑internet values and technical needs. As one of two external bandwidth providers, LeaseWeb now carries about one-third of Wikimedia’s traffic, delivering the redundant, high‑capacity connectivity that supports Wikimedia’s uptime, stability and future growth.

Wikimedia Foundation

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