Comments on: Rising Cost of Facebook Infrastructure; CTO Resigns

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:48:04 +0000

If they’re going to be spending $100m every couple o’ years (as has been reported elsewhere, this debt is expected to cover server acquisitions for the next “year or two”) on just servers, and continue to grow, there’s not going to be much room for profit. This sort of thing is probably whey the IPO’s being avoided.

By: Ouverture des réseaux sociaux, la route sera longue… | Médias sociaux

Ouverture des réseaux sociaux, la route sera longue… | Médias sociaux — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:25:10 +0000

[...] Pire, certains y voient également un aveu de faiblesse concernant la plateforme technique (qui a visiblement du mal à tenir la charge) et un moyen détourné de ne pas avoir à investir trop d’argent trop vite pour la remettre à niveau. La démission récente du fondateur et directeur technique ne serait pas un hasard : Rising Cost of Facebook Infrastructure; CTO Resigns. [...]

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Digg, Facebook Connect To Headline at f8Con - GigaOM — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:44:58 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: FredCavazza.net » Ouverture des réseaux sociaux, la route sera longue…

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:48:56 +0000

By: The Fall of Facebook - Dan Root dot Net

The Fall of Facebook - Dan Root dot Net — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:08:48 +0000

[...] costs are way too high. Seriously, do you know what it takes to run a website like [...]

By: Why would you do it????? at diversity.net.nz

Why would you do it????? at diversity.net.nz — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:49:17 +0000

[...] just read that Facebook have just raised USD100mill all to “invest” in new servers. Apparently [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:23:46 +0000

@ Daniel,

I think you are right about this - and that explains why Google spends so much money on its infrastructure.

You should come to our conference though. It be fun to have you around.

By: Daniel Golding

Daniel Golding — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:02:19 +0000

A 23-year old, no matter how smart, is simply unqualified to run engineering at a firm like Facebook. Even if he has the development chops, he certainly doesn’t have the infrastructure experience needed.

Of course, I’m waiting for one of your commenters to drop some piece of science like “why don’t they just use EC2″ or “but what about the cloud?”. At some point, running your own servers makes sense, even if owning your own datacenter doesn’t. Thats the point Facebook is at.

By: Facebook’s real world stretching to match its virtual world « Storage Effect

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:28:52 +0000

[...] Om Malik draws some conclusions on this as well. [...]

By: Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:18:50 +0000

The virtual world is starting to look very physical. The Web kicks things off, but data “factories” are going to keep it going.

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:45:15 +0000

I gave em more than that!