FaceBook has 30,000 servers and serves 600,000 images per second!
internet — By Monik on October 17, 2009 at 5:15 am
FaceBook Data Centre View
FaceBook could be termed as the fastest growing Social Networking Service history has ever seen. Well, to support the Fact here are some numbers which will make you surprized.
30,000 servers! How?
Before 18 Months back Facebook had about 10,000 servers but in those 18 months, the company has seen lot of growth an had borrowed a sum of $100 million which was probably for setting up 20,000 servers.
600,000 Images served every second!
Facebook, has 300 Million Active users which have stored 80 Billion Images in their servers and they are accessed at the rate of 600,000 Images per second!
25,000 GB Log Data saved Daily!
Well, with 300 million users and growing Facebook stores 25 TB of data daily and when this is compared to U.S postal mail service, it’s 1000 times more!
[Via DataCentreKnowledge]
Tags: amazing, data centre, facebook, facts, images, internet, servers, social networking
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Hey, i am Monik Pamecha and i am the Founder of the Etiole.com. Apart from Blogging i am a student, web developer (i have developed services like hop.im and iluvtech.org), a total G33k and complete gadget freak, and a soccer, badminton and table tennis player. Currently Learning PHP and Ruby on Rails :) Do Check out my Blog or Follow me on Twitter.
