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Who Has the Most Web Servers?
May 14th, 2009 : Rich Miller
There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at the end of 2008. Of the companies that publicly report their server counts, only European hosts 1&1 Internet and OVH have more than Rackspace. Here’s a look at some of the providers with high server counts, gleaned from public reports and partial data from a recent Netcraft server count report (Updated, Feb. 2010 to include Intel and update some hoster data) :- Intel: 100,000 servers (company, Feb. 2010)
- 1&1 Internet: 70,000 servers (company, Feb. 2010)
- OVH: 65,000 servers (company, Feb. 2010)
- Facebook: 60,000 servers (estimate, Oct. 2009)
- Rackspace: 59,876 servers (company, May 2010)
- The Planet: 48,500 servers (company)
- Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers (company)
- SoftLayer: 30,000 servers (company, July 2010)
- SBC Communications: 29,193 servers (Netcraft)
- Verizon: 25,788 servers (Netcraft)
- Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers (Netcraft)
- AT&T: 20,268 servers (Netcraft)
- Peer1/ServerBeach: 10,277 servers (company)
- iWeb: 10,000 servers (company)
Of course, there are a number of providers who have at least 50,000 servers and don’t publish the information. Who else is in the club?
Here’s a list of companies we believe are running at least 50,000 servers:
- Google: The search giant’s server count has long been the focus of speculation. There’s a widely circulated estimate of 450,000 servers, but that number is at least three years old. If it was ever accurate, it certainly isn’t anymore, given Google’s data center building spree. Google’s recently revealed container data center holds more than 45,000 servers, and that’s a single facility built in 2005.
- Microsoft: There’s actually some numbers on Microsoft’s server count, but it’s also dated. Screen shots from the company’s data center management software suggest that Microsoft was running about 218,000 servers in mid-2008. The company’s new Chicago container farm will hold up to 300,000 servers, so the count will change rapidly when that facility is deployed.
- Amazon: It runs the world’s largest online store and one of the world’s largest cloud computing operations. Amazon says very little about its data center operations, but we know that it bought $86 million in servers from Rackable in 2008, and stores 40 billion objects in its S3 storage service.
- eBay: With more than 160 million active users between its online auction house and PayPal payment service, and 443 million users on Skype, eBay has a massive data center infrastructure. The company houses more than 8.5 petabytes of data in huge data warehouses. We’re not certain what kind of server count this requires, but it’s certainly in the 50,000 club.
- Yahoo: While its data center infrastructure isn’t quite as enormous as those for Google and Microsoft, the third major search portal likely has more than 50,000 servers in operation to support its large free hosting operation as well as its paid hosting service and Yahoo Stores.
- GoDaddy: It’s the world’s largest domain registrar with more than 35 million domains under management, but effective cross-selling of its hosting plans has also made GoDaddy one of the largest shared hosting operations in the world. It’s infrastructure is probably similar in scope to that of 1&1 Internet.
- HP/EDS: While server “ownership” is less distinct with system integrators, EDS has an enormous data center operation. Company documents (PDF) say EDS is managing 380,000 servers in 180 data centers. (Thanks, Bruce for the link).
- IBM: With more than 8 million square feet of data center space, IBM also houses an enormous number of servers in its data centers, both for itself and its customers.
Have we missed anyone obvious? Let us know in the comments.
Akamai?
James: great suggestion. Akamai says it has 48,000 servers. I’ve added them to the list. Thanks!
Benjamin
Posted May 14th, 2009In france, OVH.com says it has 40,000 servers (http://www.ovh.co.uk/aboutus/).
Thanks, Benjamin! We’ve added them as well.
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I heard about 600 000 servers at Google about 2 years ago (from an insider that had just left Google). The number must be unbelievable now.
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Dan Brown
Posted May 14th, 2009What about big investment banks? How many servers are they running?
A lot of these servers are not necessarily web servers. So maybe consider NSA, DoD, and top500 supercomputers (e.g. roadrunner has 100k cores…).
Apple
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I wonder about Apple. They clearly must have some infrastructure behind the iTunes store, but the MobileMe problems raised some questions about the scope of their data centers.
When I was blogging for Netcraft, the number of Apple servers showing up in the monthy survey was inconsequential, way less than 1 percent. One assumes Apple uses all its own gear, although it also serves much of its content via Akamai (which largely runs on Linux).
Fun post, thanks for compiling all this information.
I second James. I’d be interested in Akamai stats as well.
Scott
Posted May 14th, 2009What about Oracle and Salesforce?
Scott:
Salesforce.com actually runs on only about 1,000 servers, most of which are hosted with Equinix.
I know one bank that has 65,000 servers. I also know two others that are well over 40k. I suspect IBM has some monster data centers as well.
John
johnmwillis.com
You missed QQ.com(Tencent). They must have lots of servers:
“After storming into the survey last month, this month sees QQ gain a further 8.9 million sites. QQ now hosts nearly 29 million Qzone sites under the qzone.qq.com domain, all of which are served by its own QZHTTP server.”
see http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/03/15/march_2009_web_server_survey.html
George William Herbert
Posted May 14th, 2009Large mainstream retail banks are more likely to have very large server farms than investment banks per se.
I’ve been in IT at the largest investment bank in the world and they didn’t have enough servers in total to come close to making this list. A goodly fraction of what they did have are much larger than 1U systems – midsize 8 or 12 CPU Sun servers, for example – but total server counts weren’t that high.
I have heard high (10s of thousands) numbers bandied about for large retail banks but haven’t worked for one, so I don’t know for sure either way.
SBC is ATT now, wouldn’t that give Texas the #2, #3 and #4 spots?
bacon man
Posted May 14th, 2009what about walmart? i was under the impression they had one of the largest server requirements outside of microsoft and google and amazon. *their entire sales operation is automated as well as inventory*. IBM i know has a very large server count, as does Dell(I worked at a dell server farm). HP also has a very high server count. Apple would likely have quite large server demands. Myspace would have a fairly large server requirement as well. *those are the ones that come to mind*
bacon man
Posted May 14th, 2009Someone also mentioned banks. I wouldn’t be surprised that NYSE has massive requirements I know Bank of america and Citi would. as well as any of the other large exchanges, or international banks.
John Galt
Posted May 14th, 2009I think that CI-Host is up to the 25,000 mark with their 3×10,000 sq/ft colo & dedicated centers.
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gildorr
Posted May 15th, 2009SunGard almost certainly breaks the 50k server count. Among other things, they manage hot backup sites for many major banks. The one facility of theirs I’ve been in was over 900K square feet.
Virasto
Posted May 15th, 2009With a global expansion strategy virallisetlinkit will soon surpass 50000…
Roger
Posted May 15th, 2009I’d imagine a lot of large financial firms like Barclays would be up there. Barclays owns the company which owns the company where I work, and we have over a thousand servers in our little company. The Big Fish parts of the uebercompany must have a hell of a lot more.
Next guess: Sony. It is a company with so many arms that I’d expect it to be up there with the financial giant corporations. Everquest probably has a fair number of servers. Imageworks would naturally have a lot of CPU power, etc.
After that: IBM. Not only do they make machines, so they’ll naturally have access to their own equipment for in house uses. But they do tons of service work. I got to visit the data center used by their BCRS group in Boulder Colorado, and I swear, they have two of everything there. (Basically, BCRS = a DR service where you tell them what you have, and they keep one or two on hand so that when you building explodes, you come to their data center and get up and running there with a full duplicate of your IT infrastructure.)
Hetzner claims “far more than 20K servers” at http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/unternehmen/ueber-uns/
blah
Posted May 15th, 2009myspace
Dan
Posted May 15th, 2009One of the world’s biggest banks recently went from around 9,000 servers down to 1,300. The economy only affected it by about 10%, the real driver was virtualization.
Before, we were required to have dedicated print, scan, dhcp, and file servers for production, backup, and development environments.
I work for the UK government SIGINT/Comms organisation at GCHQ. Last count we had 245,000 servers under our building in Cheltenham. These are mainly used for pattern recognition, heuristics, translation (of signals not languages), and cracking simple ciphers. Most of them are Intel based 1U or blade servers.
Lab Op
Posted May 15th, 2009I can guarantee you that Cisco has more than 50,000 in use, not counting what it supports between all of the companies on this list.
Bruce
Posted May 15th, 2009You left out the big corporate hosting outsourcers: IBM and EDS (now HP). These guys are the ones that actually run a lot of the server farms behind banks, governments and so on.
Bruce
Posted May 15th, 2009Went back and found some promo materials from EDS that give a server count:
http://www.eds.com/services/hosting/downloads/webhosting_aag.pdf
“With our global presence, we manage more than 380,000 servers in 180 data centers around the world.”
This doesn’t necessarily mean they own the hardware, but they’re running the data centers.
For IBM I haven’t found a similar server count, but they’re at least as big as HP in this market.
That’s a lot of heat and power.
CERN should also be in that list probably. 
CERN is reported to have 8,000 servers. That’s a lot of servers, but not nearly as many as some of the other firms discussed here. But they’ll always have bragging rights for having the first server.
Jason
Posted May 15th, 2009Another industry to consider is insurance (along the lines of finance). I work for a huge insurance company that has about 4K Unix boxes split up between HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Solaris. We have well over 100K Windows servers and almost as much processing power in mainframe hardware.
Speaking of Bank of America…I don’t know how many servers they have, but after the merger of Country Wide, they were managing well over 1 million IP addresses.
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A few places with a lot of servers…
myspace.com
EDS
IBM Global Services (duh) … since they manage servers and applications for scores of people
#akshat – iTunes is distributed by akamai
Might want to see what Limelight have
You’ve missed most major datacenters. GNAX/Global Net Crossing, MAE east/west/south, CalPOP, PAIX, Akamai, Level3 (L3’s san diego POP alone is around 150k servers), Choopa, Pair, Xilogix, Inflow Atlanta, the semi-missed McColo, Peer1, FDCServers, KIO, AlphaRed, OCIE, US Data Port, Latisys, SuperNAP, Dallas Data Center, ThePlanet, Phoenix ONE, EV1, SoftLayer, NetApp, NevadaNap, Finland OY, NetMagic, iAdvantage, 3Tera, et cetera.
Not to mention the datacenters of the large stock and commodities exchanges.
Not to mention that service firms like IBM and Sun run private datacenters for customers.
And then of course the NSA’s data center is rumored to hold more than a million servers, which is why they had to build their own power plant.
I miss the era of journalism where research didn’t mean asking your readers to fill you in. It’s not as if this information is hard to find. Pretty sure none of the places you listed are in the top 25.
According to their blog, Serverbeach has 10,277 servers as of a couple of months ago:
http://serverbeach.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/seven-years-ago-this-month/
@John Haugeland
I don’t understand most of your comment that lists a lot of companies that probly have nothing to do on this list. Rich’s list includes The Planet (that merged with EV1 years ago) and Softlayer, Peer1 is mostly colo except for Serverbeach (that celebrated its 10,000th server recently like iWeb), Alphared has recently gone out of business, 3Tera is a software company they partner with datacenter operators and not use servers (or very few) themselves, etc.
The list is not perfect, but is very interesting and built from released information, other companies probably have more servers but they do not talk about it.
Oops, Serverbeach got to 10,000 servers in 2008, I thought it was 2009. They must be between 12 and 14 000 now.
And what about Wikipedia ? They must have a lot of servers too.
sbouli
Posted May 15th, 2009In fact, for OVH, the numbers in http://www.ovh.co.uk/aboutus are not accurate.
They got 55102, number corrected by octave, owner of OVH in one of the ovh Mailing List.
someone sent him the link to here 
Thanks for this.
Forget about wikipedia, I’m not sure if the numbers are up to date but they say in their FAQ they own about 350 servers.
Actually, Wikipedia runs on about 300 servers in a couple of data centers, with most of its servers in Tampe. We wrote about Wikipedia’s infrastructure last June.
John Haugeland:
Thanks for your thoughts. Some of your suggestions are good ones. Level 3 in particular. Others not so much. Martin already noted some issues. Here’s a couple more:
- Pair has 1,500 servers (data from a customer newsletter, Sept. 2008). I love Pair, but they’re not close.
- The SuperNAP provides no server counts, but is in the early days of filling up, with just one pod built out.
- Inflow hasn’t existed for many moons. It’s part of Sungard (which I’m also seeking data on).
- Phoenix ONE isn’t open yet (although Scottsdale ONE is)
You say “It’s not as though this information is hard to find.” In fact, in many cases, it is hard to find. The stock and commodity exchanges and NSA don’t talk about these things.
Anonymous
Posted May 15th, 2009What about Savvis? I’d be willing to bet that Savvis has far more servers than RackSpace…
What about Baidu, the chinese search company? There should be a couple of chinese hosting companies too, and japanese and korean ones.
jrronimo
Posted May 15th, 2009Flickr?
Savvis doesn’t provide a server count (not that I’ve seen anyway). It has a much larger data center footprint than Rackspace, with 1.2 million SF to about 250K for Rackspace, but just 4,300 customers (compared to 19,000 managed hosting customers for Rackspace). About 55 percent of Savvis’ DC space is colocation.
Anonymous
Posted May 15th, 2009Dedibox, a french hoster http://www.dedibox.fr/
it seems they have 15k+ dedicated servers
greg
Posted May 15th, 2009OVH has over 55 100 dedicated servers
I recently heard a figure of 1 million for Google, but I have no idea if it’s accurate.
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aka
Posted May 15th, 2009Blizzard had “thousands” of servers shortly after release, to support 200k users.[1]
The Beeb says they now have more than 1.5 million users in China alone.[2]
ergo, Blizzard is almost certainly in the 50k club.
[1]http://wowmb.net/forums/f8/4120-world_warcraft_interview_computer_games_magazine/
[2]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4183340.stm
Anonymous
Posted May 15th, 2009@Dan Brown : One of the former prominent investment banks had upwards of 30k globally but very few were web servers.
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Dave
Posted May 15th, 2009Stay on topic folks: WEBservers.
Blizzard might have a lot to support World of Warcraft, but that’s a game; not a website.
And I find it incredibly difficult to believe some of these numbers when focusing on “webservers”. Network appliances, DNS servers, mail servers, etc. are -not- webservers. Webservers deliver -web- content, not just internet content. Images, music, texts, videos, etc.
Mxx
Posted May 15th, 2009Dave is right.
Should we count “web/http” servers explicitly as the article’s title or any “servers” in general?
What about Oracle and Sun? Especially considering they just merged, the count could be pretty high.
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derw
Posted May 16th, 2009Dave:
The wow forums and website are run on some of the same servers the game is.
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Johnny Woods
Posted May 16th, 2009Well, seeing as Google is going to one day Rule the World, I would say Google does!
jmxz
Posted May 16th, 2009Server4you (www.server4you.com) claims “over 30,000″ on their about us page: http://www.server4you.com/us/dedicated_about_us/index.html
Anonymouse
Posted May 16th, 2009Yahoo! has around 155k servers – I left there in December and recall that number from a global capacity planning meeting.
Wow that’s really impressive.
Here are some other things to consider:
There is much more to a data center than just web servers. There are virtualization clusters that may or may not be running web services. Should you count all the servers in a cluster even though half the resources are being used elsewhere? There are MySQL clusters that only provide database access. There are NetApp/Data filers that may hold website data but only serve that data through a web server, not directly to an end user. There are data recovery/backup servers that hold data but don’t serve pages. There are application servers that crunch data and update MySQL clusters. There are KVM servers, monitoring servers, tipping points, network security servers, development servers, ssl servers, failovers, all of these directly contribute to the general health of a data center (depending on infrastructure). Should they be counted as well? Or only the servers that are publicly accessible over http/https/pop/imap/etc?
Of course, all of this is assuming there is relevant data available that is up to date. Even if a total server count is available, every hosting data center I’ve worked at is in a state of constant flux, retiring old hardware and provisioning new hardware at often staggering rates.
Don
Posted May 16th, 2009180,000 data centers? Um… lets correct that to 180 data centers. 380,000 servers with 180,000 datacenters doesn’t really have a high enough density to call anything a datacenter. Anyone got numbers for the US Government, or any of their branches. Interested in say…NSA.
Jordy
Posted May 16th, 2009Just an FYI, PEER1 has 10,000 just in Serverbeach. They also have an extensive Managed Hosting business which holds around 4000 servers, and then colocation of which they have quite a few datacentres each housing multiple servers per client.
First Data processes more than 2 million credit card transactions a minute. (5X in the holiday season) I’ve been through their server farm in Nebraska, and there were well over 50K there. And that was in 2006.
Looks like your # is outdated, OVH does gear around [B]55102[/B] box exactly ATM ( #1 is OVH ).
xccoaster
Posted May 16th, 2009I believe you forgot Blizzard.
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Posted May 17th, 2009LayeredTech (inc FastServers.net which they bought in April 2008) are pretty big. In a September 2008 interview (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/32818) they said they had 17,000 servers.
Mike Pasco
Posted May 17th, 2009When I worked at Wachovia’s investment bank, we supported 3,500 Windows servers alone. That’s not including the Unix servers for the investment bank plus everything on the corporate side. Now that they’ve been bought by Wells they are probably over the 50,000 mark.
OVH Fanboy
Posted May 18th, 2009OVH found this article and updated it’s website because it was old news.
it now says 55000 dedicated servers. It does not include their own servers (internal, testing purposes, web services and web hosting).
Could you update this page ?
Ady
Posted May 18th, 2009Level 3? I think they are on par with Akamai
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When I worked at Wachovia’s investment bank, we supported 3,500 Windows servers alone. That’s not including the Unix servers for the investment bank plus everything on the corporate side. Now that they’ve been bought by Wells they are probably over the 50,000 mark…
OVH actually has exactly 55102 customer servers.
(see the official forum post).
Maybe its a good idea to update this page.
OVH should be on top!
Since OVH has now updated its “About Us” page with the 55,000 number, we have updated the page to reflect the higher number.
Chuck B
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General Electric
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Posted May 19th, 2009A peek at the Apple DC in Newark… ~1500 racks, probably 10-15K servers at that facility alone, ballpark. Mostly Apple xserve and xraid, some misc other equipment as well.
Anonymous Wells Fargo Employee
Posted May 20th, 2009After the Wells Fargo acquisition/merger the combined organization has well over 50,000 total servers.
We’/re actually trying to consolidate or decommission them as fast as possible.
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Joseph
Posted May 21st, 2009How about Versign? They run .com, .net and many other top level domains. They run the largest certificate authority (I think), and they run some of the domain name root.
jack
Posted May 30th, 2009Easy, nobody has more servers than the US government.
Steve E
Posted June 4th, 2009Is youtube included in Google?
I’ll love information about Hostgator. Any idea?
Hostgator hosts most of its servers at The Planet, so they’re likely bunched in with that number.
I can remember that Hetzner Online (hetzner.de) announced to have more than 30.000 webserver in their datacenter in Germany.
Just as Hetzner the german provider Strato.de mention more than 35.000 servers on the company website http://strato.de/holding/ueber_uns/rechenzentren.html
How about myspace? They must certainly surpass facebook.
Good to know about 1&1 since they are hosting my site currently.
wow, great info bro, now i know which has more server and i can go with one of your list 
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Qui a le plus de serveurs Web ?
Posted September 14th, 2009[...] En savoir plus [...]
cider
Posted September 15th, 2009Is this a Rackspace Advertisement? Do you know that there are other countries besides the US?
Strato (Germany): more than 30.000 servers (http://www.strato.de/holding/ueber_uns/index.html)
Hetzner (Germany): more than 35.000 servers (http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/unternehmen/ueber-uns/)
Hosteurope (Germany): space for more than 24.000 servers (http://www.hosteurope.de/content/Datacenter-Tour)
OVH (France): 70.000 servers (60.000 dedicated servers + 10.000 servers for webspace etc.) (http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2430)
and so on, I bet in other countries there are also many hosting companies with 20.000+ servers. This list is nonsense.
regards,
cider
cider
Posted September 15th, 2009I found another one:
Plusserver (Germany): more than 30.000 servers (http://www.plusserver.de/unternehmen/)
regards,
cider
Fito
Posted October 10th, 2009No mention of Apple?
With iTunes + App Store + mobile.me + almost worldwide online Apple Store, they must have a pretty big footprint as well.
Cheers,
Fito
Guess it is not the most popular company here (and else where) and its star is long sunk, but shouldn´t AOL get a honorable mention? They must have had a lot of servers, as the once claimed the most users?
I think google is biggest one…! nice information dude…:D
Rohit Gupta
Posted October 14th, 2009Yahoo has around 300k servers.
NAVSPECWARCOM
Posted October 14th, 2009NSA has as of September 09 1,385,000 servers CONUS
I heard dr. Evil has over a beeelion servers!
(mostly illegal immigrants)
On the east side of Indianapolis, there are 4 warehouses that have been emptied and filled with server farms. I have toured this myself and the data sheets display over 452,000 servers.
I am not allowed to reveal what company this is though, as I was not supposed to know this data.
Infraestructura de servidores de Facebook | Gigle.net
Posted October 17th, 2009[...] Ranking de servidores. [...]
OVH has know 65k servers (cf a message in french on the OVH Forum : http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=52397).
Daily del.icio.us for October 13th through October 17th | Vinny Carpenter's blog
Posted October 17th, 2009[...] Who Has the Most Web Servers? « Data Center Knowledge – Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at the end of 2008. Of the companies that publicly report their server counts, only European hosts 1&1 Internet and OVH have more than Rackspace. [...]
Joe Blow
Posted October 21st, 2009For everyone listing banks, most financial organizations use mainframes. A single IBM z10 mainframe can handle over 2,000 transactions a second!
Aaron Nye
Posted November 10th, 2009Great post, thanks for putting all of this information together. Full disclosure: I am the Communications Manager at 1&1 Internet, Inc.
Thanks to all of our great customers, 1&1 Internet is proud to say that we currently have 70,000 servers installed.
Check out the link here:
http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Facts
Dan
Posted December 12th, 2009What about government computers, Federal, State, County, City, Schools, Unversities, Nasa, other reasearch?
What about the stock brokers and Stock Exchanges, by industry?
Maybe you can find out the most common used server system and where that segment is moving towards.
How many ISP are there and how many servers do they have?
Servers by lat, lng location, and operating system.
Another factor is utilization.
What is the utilizaation of all of the above?
What is the most common CPU and disk drive, memory?
Is there an on going systematic upgrade?
How often are servers replaced?
What is the rate of growth of Servers?
Are new machines expected to do the work of two or more older machines?
What is the mean time between failure of all server, hardware, software?
What is the most top ten common Hardware failures?
What is the average age of all servers in service today?
If there is a new operating system or fixes, is there a reload of all servers?
What Virus software is most used in servers?
How often are virus test run?
What is the most common virus?
Most common virus causing down time?
down time per server.
Scott Cleggett
Posted January 5th, 2010NASA or definately NSA would have a very high amount of servers.
LeereDose
Posted January 16th, 2010Hetzner has around 30.000 servers.
Fun write-up. I’m going to bet some internal corps like Boeing, GE and Walmart are way up there as well…. Oh, and groovyPost.com
Quanti server ha Facebook? E Google? « Il blog di Fastnet
Posted February 13th, 2010[...] Sul sito in questione date un’occhiata anche alla classifica dal titolo “Chi ha il più grande numero di server?” [...]
Wednesday data center tidbits. « The Server Room
Posted February 17th, 2010[...] } First up today comes the updated list of who has the most web servers in their data centers. I was pondering Google having in excess of 450,000 servers and matching that against all the [...]
Rubra
Posted February 17th, 2010You might want to look into Intergenia.
Owner company of : Server4you.de, plusserver.de and Serverloft.eu
On the website of Serverloft.com, it is stated that Plusserver AG (owner of Serverloft) currently has more than 30.000 servers.
Ben
Posted March 3rd, 2010AOL
Do You Have This Many Web Servers? | TechHead.co.uk
Posted March 20th, 2010[...] This article from Data Center Knowledge is more focused around hosting companies though does give an insight into which companies have the most web servers. The title mentions ‘web servers’ though I think this should be taken to include all servers despite some of the companies being mentioned being hosting focused. [...]
marin
Posted March 26th, 2010I wonder if big MMORPG’s company’s like Blizzard are in the top also.. considering Blizzard having more than 12 millions player just for World Of Warcraft.. they DataCenters must be at least close to the 50000 servers count. Also, STEAM probably is there too.. it would be nice to know..
Ah, and i work’d for 4 years for Telecom Italia .. the datacenters are small facilities, but if you count all the data cervers it has, it is certainly in the top. Also some other phone companys in Europe.. like Vodafone and Orange.. just to name a few. Don’t forget about Tiscali (i think is the main internet provider in Europe), or British telecom .. and i’m sure there are many others..
While not web, here is (apparently) a best kept secret of HPC servers in terms of Quantity, Processing capability and Storage……. Schlumberger / WesternGeco.
iWeb is currently building a new data center and this new facility will bring the total dedicated server capacity of iWeb to nearly 35,000 servers.
http://blog.iweb.com/en/2010/01/iweb-to-host-20000-dedicated-servers-in-a-new-data-center-in-montreal/3447.html
Who Has the Most Web Servers?
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[Infographics] List of Servers and Who Owns Them | mYpassion
Posted April 19th, 2010[...] Via Gizmodo and Datacenterknowledge! [...]
Google’s Insane Number of Servers Visualized « ISP2.0 Blog
Posted April 23rd, 2010[...] Note: Contrary to the graphic’s description, iWeb is in fact a “worldwide provider of Internet hosting and IT infrastructure” based in Montreal, and not in any way affiliated with Apple. [Intac via Reddit; Data from Data Center Knowledge] [...]
Gizmodo estimated more than 1,000,000 servers belong to Google as of 2009
If YouTube isn’t counted into Google’s server farms, that would be an interesting number as well.
And what about Twitter?
(I read in the comments above that Wikipedia (Wikimedia?) only runs on about 300 servers. Can that be true given the very high ranks Wikipedia articles get on most searches? Or, if it is, what would this number say about the kind of content web users are looking at? (i.e.: definitely not much, in comparison, of Wikipedia!))
Marcin
Posted May 26th, 2010Sorry can’t give no. But CSC is in Top 5
Ops but why not include theplanet ?
matt
Posted June 21st, 2010Apple
Companies like Blizzard aren’t even a spot on the map compared to most of these companies. They probably lease most of their servers from other people on the list anyway kids…
Facebook doubles its server count from 30,000 to 60,000 in just six months « MobileTrends.info
Posted June 29th, 2010[...] text. It’s hardly intensive work. Check out another great article from Data Center Knowledge for some numbers — or read my [...]
わずか四半期の間に、サーバー数が倍増した Facebook の事情 [ #cloud #cloudcomputing #facebook #datacenter ] « Agile Cat — Azure & Hadoop — Talking Book
Posted June 29th, 2010[...] their server growth, but still well behind Intel, which has more than 100,000 servers. See Who Has The Most Web Servers for more data on the largest Internet [...]
Rich, regarding Savvis, remember that almost all of their datacenters are 125 – 150 W/ft^2 so their density is lower than you would expect from a datacenter company with that sized footprint. They’re also one of the oldest big colo companies, being the remnants of Exodus, so they have a bizarre footprint of ancient hardware which further skews the density numbers.
Bill Rhodes
Posted August 18th, 2010An obvious missing big user is the US Government… how many servers do they have?
Bill: We don’t have a server count for the U.S. government, but they have more than 11,000 data centers.
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