Comments on: Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware

By: Saad

Saad — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:01:52 +0000

Obviously, you didn’t read the whole sentence.

By: Facebook Rules the World | Edgelings.com « Dispatches from the Front

Facebook Rules the World | Edgelings.com « Dispatches from the Front — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:44:38 +0000

[...] How many servers are used to host Facebook? The answer is here. Photo courtesy Darren McKeenan. This is one small segment of Facebook's [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:17:46 +0000

I’m going to dream about understanding what the hell you just said tonight

By: ces

ces — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:38:39 +0000

No, Google doesn't use100 cheap computers instead of 1 powerful server. They might use a couple of slightly underpowered computers instead of 1 high end server. Google uses cost effective Intel and AMD processors. Intel uses standard PC disk drives spinning at 5400 to 7200 RPM instead of faster, more reliable SCSI. Google's real strategy is that they customize the hardware and software for the problem at hand. They design and build their own mother boards, customize the OS, supply their own cluster software: file system, map-reduce, database, remote procedure call, distributed locking, distributed cluster managers; the whole kit and kaboodle.

By: Gear6’s Web Cache Makes Web Scalability Easier

Gear6’s Web Cache Makes Web Scalability Easier — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:31:25 +0000

[...] protocol, memcached. Every Top 20 web site not owned by Microsoft uses memcached (Facebook has almost 1,000 servers dedicated to its memcached tier) and 50-60 percent of all Alexa-ranked Top 10,000 sites use it to [...]

By: 10 Billion Facebook Photos - Is That Ecologically Sustainable ?

10 Billion Facebook Photos - Is That Ecologically Sustainable ? — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:05:41 +0000

[...] quick maths : Earlier GigaOm reported Facebook to have around 10,000 servers & last May Facebook reportedly borrowed $100 million to [...]

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!