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How Facebook Serves Up 300 Million Users

Posted By Rich Miller On September 16, 2009 @ 8:22 am In Facebook,Popular | No Comments

A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility.

A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility.

Facebook [1] announced last night that it now has more than 300 million active users, meaning the social network has been adding users at an average rate of 670,000 per day. Most of those users are uploading photos and videos, which requires a lot of storage and computing assets.

That’s why Facebook has been aggressively expanding its infrastructure by leasing wholesale data center space from DuPont Fabros Technology [2] (DFT)  in Virginia and Digital Realty Trust [3] in California. Here’s a look at some of our coverage of the growth of Facebook’s data center infrastructure:     

Here are some ”Facebook by the numbers” posts:

For ongoing coverage, check out our Facebook Channel [15] or subscribe to our newsletter [16].

About Rich Miller [17]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com

[2] DuPont Fabros Technology: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/dupont-fabros/

[3] Digital Realty Trust: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/digital-realty-trust/

[4] Facebook Makes Big Investment in Data Centers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/09/14/facebook-makes-big-investment-in-data-centers/

[5] Facebook: Managing Epic Growth in Real-Time: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/23/facebook-managing-epic-growth-in-real-time/

[6] Facebook Spending $20 Million a Year on Data Centers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/18/facebook-20-million-a-year-on-data-centers/

[7] A Look Inside Facebook’s Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/17/a-look-inside-facebooks-data-center/

[8] Facebook Expanding Its Data Centers, Again: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/30/facebook-expanding-its-data-centers-again/

[9] Facebook Pushes Limits on Memcached:: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/15/facebook-pushes-limits-for-memcached/

[10] Facebook Borrows $100 Million to Buy Servers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/05/12/facebook-borrows-100-million-to-buy-servers/

[11] Facebook Chat: 1 Billion Messages A Day: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/15/facebook-chat-1-billion-messages-a-day/

[12] Facebook: $1 Million A Month in Power Costs?: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/31/facebook-1-million-a-month-in-power-costs/

[13] Facebook Hosts 10 Billion Photos: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/15/facebook-hosts-10-billion-photos/

[14] Facebook Now Running 10,000 Web Servers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/04/23/facebook-now-running-10000-web-servers/

[15] Facebook Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/facebook/

[16] newsletter: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/subscribe/

[17] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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