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Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms

Posted by timothy on from the don't-forget-the-various-tlas dept.

1sockchuck writes "Rackspace said this week that it is managing more than 50,000 web servers, raising the question: who else has that many? Of companies that publicly discuss their server counts, there are only a handful that are near or above the 50,000 server mark, including 1&1 Internet, The Planet, and Akamai, as well as Rackspace. The larger totals are found among companies that don't discuss how many servers they're running. The leading suspects: Google, Microsoft, Amazon and eBay."

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  1. Re:analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you trying to show who has the biggest dick in the IT world ? :3

    No, didn't you read the summary? We're trying to find out who has the biggest rack.

  2. Re:Who else? ME. by linhares · · Score: 4, Funny

    he's got an 8-screen setup

  3. If you ask.. by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Google how many servers it uses, does that mean it's self-aware?

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  4. Re:Who else? ME. by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's an octo-mom joke in there somewhere.

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