On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <[email protected]>wrote:
> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_servers_does_Google_have > > <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_servers_does_Google_have>Google > currently have around 1 million servers. Mega sites can't be done cheaply. > One of the benefits of cloud services is they can scale to meet demand as > the servers are all virtual and you just spin up new instances as required. > Yeap exactly what I was thinking. Woulnd't know up front it would be popular anyway so best to start small in the cloud and expand as required > > Having said that, a site like Facebook could probably run on one server, as > long as you have no traffic. With MySpace's current market trajectory you > can probably buy it in a year for a dollar. > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Tom Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm actually not doing anything, just wanted to know if sites like >> facebook, myspace, google images, etc would be possible to run fairly >> cheaply using a web hoster or would they really need dedicated private >> servers. >> >> >>
