Comments on: Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware

By: Facebook Pokes Dell, Jilts Rackable? - GigaOM

Facebook Pokes Dell, Jilts Rackable? - GigaOM — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:31:21 +0000

[...] cozier shouldn’t come as a surprise. Facebook is seriously “server hungry” and has been on a spending spree to beef up its infrastructure. Dell, on the otherhand, has been increasingly seriously about cloud computing and working with [...]

By: Digg, Facebook Connect To Headline at f8Con - GigaOM

Digg, Facebook Connect To Headline at f8Con - GigaOM — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:46:02 +0000

[...] Facebook Connect in many ways is the exact opposite approach taken by the company last year when it encouraged hundreds of developers to create applications that lived inside its silo. These applications grew at a breakneck speed and created a bubble of their own. They also put the Facebook infrastructure under extreme stress and on a cost curve that only large revenue streams can support. The inane and pointless apps cost the company a lot of bandwidth, not to mention the rising hardware costs. [...]

By: The Information Super Highway «

The Information Super Highway « — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:30:25 +0000

[...] infrastructure is running on about 10,000 servers, which is costing them between $7 and 9 million dollars per year. As a company with 500 employees [...]

By: HP Weds Cloud and High-performance Computing - GigaOM

HP Weds Cloud and High-performance Computing - GigaOM — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:18:47 +0000

[...] brand of two-in-one blades, but HP will have to compete with existing hardware vendors such as Rackable and Silicon Metrics, who seem to be doing fine providing energy-efficient scalable hardware for Web [...]

By: Geek Out: How Facebook Scales Chat - GigaOM

Geek Out: How Facebook Scales Chat - GigaOM — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:13:40 +0000

[...] 08Archives Geek Out: How Facebook Scales Chat — Neither Om nor I are shy about talking infrastructure, but the High Scalability blog has gone totally geek and parsed the details of how Facebook plans [...]

By: //steve clayton: geek in disguise : Are you listening, Microsoft?

//steve clayton: geek in disguise : Are you listening, Microsoft? — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:23:31 +0000

[...] of servers per month (this is getting more and more coverage of late, esp when you consider Facebook seems to run on only 10,000 servers [...]

By: The Rising Cost of Facebook Infrastructure - GigaOM

The Rising Cost of Facebook Infrastructure - GigaOM — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:16:57 +0000

[...] Malik, Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 9:16 PM PT Comments (0) Last month, I wrote about Facebook’s insatiable hunger for hardware. Over the weekend, Spencer Ante of Business Week [...]

By: Facebook Quiz

Facebook Quiz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:25:32 +0000

Facebook is doing it’s best to scale up and those hardships are going to be a hard juggle. I think they started off with their feet facing the wrong direction.

By: Ideal Programmer\’s blog » Blog Archive » Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:04:43 +0000

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By: lenath

lenath — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:41:34 +0000

The original article mentions 2 DB Admin for 1,800 MySQL servers…. Ouch…. Don’t know how leggit this info is, but if it is actually the case, it is damn impressive!

By: lenath

lenath — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:26:51 +0000

What about the number of SysAdmins? Do you have any figures on this by any chance? Would be interesting to find out…

By: Ernie Oporto

Ernie Oporto — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:53:19 +0000

@A.T.
Please expand on your ideas about why the US not being a leader in any way invalidates following Google’s proven success? I’m just wondering what other examples of mega-success you’ve come across on the Internet that has somehow escaped the attention of the rest of the Internet.

By: A.T.

A.T. — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:19:24 +0000

strange, why to copy Google if Google strategy has been targeted on US success and times has changed - US is less and less leader (if at all, make yourself search for “food rationing”, yes, first time in US history)… do they have capability to think by own brain at FB at all?

By: links for 2008-04-27 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog

links for 2008-04-27 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:35:15 +0000

[...] Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware 10,000 servers, 1,800 are MySQL and around 805 of them are memcached servers (tags: facebook) [...]

By: Jon Radoff’s Entrepreneur 2.0 Blog » Facebook entering the Cloud business?

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:20:03 +0000

[...] world’s hunger for server capacity? At first, when I read Steven Baker’s write-up on Facebook’s server farm–10,000 servers and counting–I was amazed. Why the heck does Facebook need that many [...]

By: Nazz

Nazz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:19:23 +0000

10,000 servers is ridiculous. For crying out loud, you can build a nice quad-quad core server with 64gb of RAM for $10k. With 20 of those I can power Facebook easily. That is 1.2 TB of RAM or shit, buy a 100 of those and you got 6 TB of RAM and 1600 processors. If you cannot power Facebook with that, then you don’t know how to architect for shit. Can’t do it with 100 servers? Ok, buy 1000 of them and you got 60 TB of RAM and 16000 processors. If you cannot power with that, then you are probably mentally retarded.