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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. Google Data Center Tech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hello,
    I have worked supporting Google's servers in one of my former employers data center. What I can tell you about there deployments is as follows:
    1) 20,000 Servers in our data center; they occupied 8 other sites (~160,000 servers). Our site was one of the largest.
    2) Over 30 GigE connections feeding into dual Juniper M20 later upgraded to Juniper T-320
    3) Yes they run a custom version of RH

    Now for the record; they had approx 160,000 servers in our companies data centers. I have met techs from other data centers which had similar counts. At a minimum I can confirm approx 160,000 and potentially 320,000 and up for other data centers; providing they mirrored their servers. It wouldn't make sense to put all your eggs (servers) in one basket. The time frame for these numbers was back in the early 2002.