Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers

[...] to new information released by Facebook last week (and published by Data Center Knowledge today), the company is now running “somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 servers”. The [...]

[...] Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers, Data Center Knowledge [...]

Harsha M V

Posted October 14th, 2009

wow amazing 20mil for data centers. wondering how much is the current income of FB

Online Guitar Tuition

Posted October 14th, 2009

I wonder what makes up the majority of that data, pointless status updates or mafia war invites.

[...] Jeff Rothschild’e göre Facebook’un günlük veri depolaması da 25 terabyte’a ulaşmış durumda. Özellikle video paylaşımıyla canlılığını koruyan Facebook’un internetin en [...]

[...] Da allora, com’è noto il traffico sul sito è aumentato a dismisura e il numero di iscritti anche, (oggi supera i 300 milioni), ma nessuna novità era stata data sul numero di infrastrutture impiegate e gli investimenti sostenuti. Qualche giorno fa in un consesso internazionale il Vice President of Technology di Facebook, Jeff Rothschild, ha finalmente svelato l’arcano, aggiungendo anche qualche interessante dato in più sul traffico gestito dal social network, riportato dal blog tecnologico DataCenterKnowledge. [...]

John Davis

Posted October 14th, 2009

Wow, that is just totally insane dude!

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[...] « Data Center Knowledge Posted in Uncategorized by Patrick Berry on October 14, 2009 via [...]

[...] Da allora, com’è noto il traffico sul sito è aumentato a dismisura e il numero di iscritti anche, (oggi supera i 300 milioni), ma nessuna novità era stata data sul numero di infrastrutture impiegate e gli investimenti sostenuti. Qualche giorno fa in un consesso internazionale il Vice President of Technology di Facebook, Jeff Rothschild, ha finalmente svelato l’arcano, aggiungendo anche qualche interessante dato in più sul traffico gestito dal social network, riportato dal blog tecnologico DataCenterKnowledge. [...]

[...] it take to run Facebook? October 14th, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment Well here is some insight.  I especially like the part where they talk about 25 TB of daily logs.  That’s a lot of [...]

[...] via Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers « Data Center Knowledge. [...]

[...] bölüm şefi Jeff Rothschild‘e göre Facebook’un günlük veri depolaması da 25 terabyte‘a ulaşmış durumda. Özellikle video paylaşımıyla canlılığını koruyan Facebook’un internetin en [...]

[...] It also suggests that Facebook has added about 20,000 servers since early 2008, which explains why it borrowed $100 million in May 2008 to fund server purchases.  Read the entire (short article) here. [...]

[...] Con información de Data Center Knowledge [...]

[...] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/ a few seconds ago from api [...]

Mike Griffiths

Posted October 15th, 2009

I appreciate the post but might I add that I find it a little odd that you’re comparing Facebook to 1&1 and Rackspace with regards to numbers of servers. It just seems a little odd to me. It’s like comparing a billionaire businessman who has 25 homes around the world to a real-estate company who own 30 homes and rent them out – completely unrelated really.

An impressive figure none the less.

Aminahoora

Posted October 16th, 2009

How is work together is this virtualization center what is platform ???
anyone have complete documentation of this ccenter

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Amit

Posted October 16th, 2009

As a Data Center Admin , This news is very much important for me … Thanks

[...] it would take to serve 300 millions users? Well, the answer comes from Facebook. According to Data center knowledge, Facebook now has 30000 servers, which are supporting their day to day [...]

[...] most popular social networking website Facebook? Well, the answer is 30,000. According Jeff Rothschild, the vice president of technology at Facebook, the Californian-based Internet company now has [...]

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[...] News link: here [...]

[...] week the number of the week was 30,000  –  that’s how many servers support Facebook’s operations.  (No wonder, Facebook produces 25TB – yep, tera-bytes – of log data per day).  The numbers [...]

[...] 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment I’m still processing a fact I learned last week: it takes 30,000 servers to keep us connected through Facebook. That’s equivalent to five power plants (450 MW) of power. [...]

[...] social network" – Facebook Inc.: In total, 25 Terabytes of user activity data is stored daily by the online social networking [...]

[...] through Facebook: with expected tenacity. Recently, the Zuckerberg-ian mothership announced that its California-based data centre has recently surpassed thirty thousand individual server units, mostly responsible for coping with 80 billion images (some 600,000 a second are transferred to and [...]

[...] what was previously one of the worst experiences on Facebook: adding photos. Despite the fact that Facebook hosts over 80 billion photos and adds around 2 billion more each month, the process of adding new photos to your profile was [...]

PLANETwebfoot

Posted December 16th, 2009

It’s not surprising that the social networking giant, Facebook, has 30,000 servers, considering they are ranked the number two most visited website in the world.

[...] allows Facebook to dynamically shift traffic loads around in order to achieve the top performance. Facebook has more than 30,000 servers, according to some estimates. The company adds roughly 10,000 new ones every 18 months. The company [...]

PC Repair

Posted December 30th, 2009

This is a huge number of servers, what would they do with all those information that they are gathering? At least, if they can manage with this many servers, that should give us an idea of what the big ‘G’ keeps on us.

[...] wonder Facebook needs as many as 30,000 servers, and they probably keep adding more and more. After all, they’re still [...]

[...] wonder Facebook needs as many as 30,000 servers, and they probably keep adding more and more. After all, they’re still [...]

[...] what was previously one of the worst experiences on Facebook: adding photos. Despite the fact that Facebook hosts over 80 billion photos and adds around 2 billion more each month, the process of adding new photos to your profile was [...]

[...] Millionen USD) dazugekommen. Insgesamt läuft Facebook also auf ca. 30.000 Servern! Da diese Zahlen jedoch vom Oktober 2009 sind, dürften es inzwischen wieder ein paar tausend mehr [...]

[...] now has close to 300 million users on its social network. Ever wondered what it takes to manage the activities of so many [...]

[...] And, as of may 2010, facebook has 400 million users; the third largest country in the world, with a huge velocity, end 2009, of 25 million new users per month. In october 2009, Facebook hosting needed 30.000 servers. [...]

[...] habe einen sehr interessanten Artikel über die Facebook Infrastruktur gefunden. Sie verfügen über 30.000 Server – [...]

[...] Facebook vice president of technology Jeff Rothschild disclosed that the company had more than 30,000 servers. Cook’s chart shows a brief plateau in Facebook’s server growth at about that time, followed by [...]

[...] requires not just one server but hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. An estimate at: Data Center Knowledge says 30,000 (that was in October of [...]

justin tv

Posted August 25th, 2010

so ? what that means, they earn 11000x than

[...] put it into context, Data Centre Knowledge clocked Facebook in 2009 managing around 25TB of logging in data per [...]

Goletas

Posted November 14th, 2010

This is a huge number of servers, what would they do with all those information that they are gathering?

Admin

Posted November 14th, 2010

David: see this update:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/28/facebook-server-count-60000-or-more/

Devall Krem

Posted December 11th, 2010

If serializing is prioritized over habits then won’t serialized project approach cause you to constantly work on the next group project? As project time is impossible to calculate you will eventually have to breach particular habit times.

[...] can view the whole story over at Data Center Knowledge dot com, including some statistics like Facebook users generating over 25 Terabytes of log data per day! [...]

[...] beschäftigt etwa 1700 Personen, betreibt etwa 30.000 Server. Die Ausgaben dafür müssen verdient werden. Tatsache ist, dass eine Website, die viele User [...]

moliva

Posted February 4th, 2011

costs are not insubstantial either though: 40,000 servers – which probably cost the best part of $200m to buy and set up – and storing maybe 100

altın çilek

Posted March 21st, 2011

around 10,000 user’s a server. Does that sound right to you? You still have to seperate web server versus database server verses backup server. Those numbers don’t seem right to me

jefry

Posted April 11th, 2011

costs are not insubstantial either though: 40,000 servers – which probably cost the best part of $200m to buy and set up – and storing maybe 100

[...] requires not just one server but hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. An estimate at: Data Center Knowledge says 30,000 (that was in October of [...]

[...] volume of data being amassed from sites such as Facebook that in 2009 were already storing 25 terabytes of logs a day and you see that only 4,915 days could be [...]

Ibiza

Posted September 1st, 2011

Wonder Facebook needs as many as 30,000 servers, and they probably keep adding more and more.Thanks

Kudos

Posted October 24th, 2011

30,000!? And this was in 2009? I can only imagine what they’re at now, in 2011..

Mohamed Rizwan

Posted November 24th, 2011

OMG! Its amazing to see the server rack and the stufss. But i am thinkg how fat is it safe and security to have all the back ups?

[...] über den Tellerrand und plötzlich sieht man das Facebook bereits 2009 über 30.000 Server nutzte (Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers) und für die Zukunft Serverzentren bauen will die so groß wie einige Fußballstadien zusammen [...]

ali

Posted January 29th, 2012

yo…. seems kinda kool….. i wud like to know what is the total storage capacity of all these 30000 servers… approximately..

[...] to new information released by Facebook last week (and published by Data Center Knowledge today), the company is now running “somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 servers”. The [...]