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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. Surveying big farms by macraig · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm frankly more curious about how many farms are operated by Archer Daniel Midlands and Cargill. I'd like to know where my food is coming from and how it's being managed. It's the farms serving my food that interest me more.

  3. 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.

  4. Here's your Backup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.avsim.com

    sort of...