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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. Server Farms? by tecnico.hitos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't know you could grow them. Have some spare seeds?

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    The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.
  2. Hey dawg by Korbeau · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I heard you like to farm servers, so I put a server farm in your farm so you can service your servers while serving your farm.