With 2.98 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the third-busiest website on the internet and has built an extensive infrastructure to support its massive user base. Since it launched its first company-built and -operated server farm in Prineville, Oregon, in April 2011, the social media platform has not stopped building new data centers and seeking new data center sites. Facebook's data centers house tens of thousands of computer servers -- networked together and linked to the outside world through fiber optic cables.
Greenpeace grabbed a fresh round of headlines today with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg restating its objections to Facebook's energy sourcing for its new data center in Oregon.
Facebook says it is always seeking better efficiency, but has no plans to deploy ARM servers in its new Oregon data center, debunking a report on a hardware blog.
Do you pursue James Bond-level secrecy for your data center, or invite the mayor in for a tour? An Oregon paper presents a "study in contrasts" between the Google facility in The Dalles and the new Facebook facility being built in Prineville, Oregon.
Facebook said today that it will double the size of its first company-built data center in Prineville, Oregon, which is currently under construction. The additional phase will bring the size of the facility to 307,000 square feet.
Facebook now is using 60,000 or more servers to support its fast-growing service, according to an analysis of data from company presentations last week. The social network's infrastructure performs more than 50 million operations per second.
What's it like working as an engineer on one of the world's busiest web sites? At Velocity 2010, Facebook System Engineer Tom Cook provided a glimpse inside the operations team with his "Day in the Life" presentation.
Facebook has begun using IPv6, joining a growing number of leading Internet networks that have deployed the next generation of the Internet Protocol, the company said today.
Facebook has moved to lock down much of the available data center space in two crucial markets, leasing large chunks of space in Santa Clara, Calif. and Ashburn, Va. The fast-growing social network has leased all the remaining space in two newly...
Facebook announced today that Ken Patchett will manage the company's new data center in Oregon. Patchett previously worked at Google, where he supervised the data center campus in The Dalles.
Facebook has posted photos of construction progress on the "fan page" for its Prineville, Oregon data center project. It's the latest effort to document data center construction on blogs and social media.