benj

I was giving a lecture on File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and web hosting last Saturday when I recalled something about Google’s Data Center.

Basically, Google handles its own hosting for its website as well as its internal requirements. The link below containts some tidbits about Google’s Data Center.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

Interestingly, Google builds its own server architecture instead of just buying servers from IBM, HP, etc. (if your market cap is in the hundreds of billions of dollars, you can do this easily). The article doesn’t point out how many servers there are but it does say that each server container has 1,160 servers with each data center having many containers. So I guess it’s safe to say that Google has at least 15,000 servers? That’s a lot of computing power, but with the complexity of Google’s search algorithm, the large number of daily visitors, as well as hundreds of applications for their internal use, I would think that all this computing power is really necessary.

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