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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+77their.
- greenlight2001, on 10/12/2007, -11/+56Article Description: "shows there rack"
I was really hoping this company was run by a bunch of hot chicks... I'd love to see their rack then. A picture of their hardware left me feeling... empty... and only semi-flaccid. - akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3960 mil wow, I would *Love* to see Digg walk us through their server room.
- hotelhotline, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38wow - 60 million hits for a company that's 8 weeks old - not too shabby....
- ElliotShoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34Wow, I thought they'd need more to support 60 million hits a day.
I'm left with the feeling of "thats it?" - PaulP82, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3860 Million Hits A Day? Impressive.
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29If you're doing it "right", you don't need to throw lots of hardware at it.
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I have a photographic memory, but the focus is blurry.
- diggdong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14No, Umpaloompa's? :(
- Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14"I wish I could take pictures but I don't think they would like that"
Is there a company regulation against it? When I was an Account Executive at Lucent, I photographed everything so I would be able to answer customers questions more efficiently. My memory is less than 100%.
I even have a photo of the back of my TV/Cable/DVR setup so if I have to take it apart,
I can put plugs where they belong. It's dark and dusty back there. - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Frankly, 400 hits/sec is not all that high. Skyrock radio has hit upwards of 1million hits/sec. They do that with 5 Zeus ZXTM load balancers as a cluster. Yep, 5.
- DaMacGamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9yea, i thought it was going to be like 200 servers stacked up on each other in a giant white room with guys in lab coats and face masks on walking around.
- herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13"shows there rack"
#1: it's "their"
#2: "shows their rack" hehe giggity giggity - omegapoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9There is an important distinction between being a wire-monkey for a couple hundred servers that you don't own, and designing, building, and implementing an enterprise class system handling 60 million hits a day for one's own business.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"makes me wonder why we have 3 servers to support 50 users at work"
Depends what they're doing on those servers. These things are just serving up flat files. Pretty much the simplest task possible for a server. If your users are doing anything more exciting than that, like doing something interesting with large databases, or rendering something, etc., then 3 servers for 50 users may not be bad at all. - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12No, that's a waste of money.
- ElliotShoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8which makes it impressive. makes me wonder why we have 3 servers to support 50 users at work... Maybe it's time to think about server virtualization
- cortlandjim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11?? little out of place??
nice sentiment though - sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13"AuctionAds, a eBay powered advertising widget, shows there rack and talks a little about there"
Talks a little about there....what?
Coherent descriptions, FTW. - cryptoisfun, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12If the grammer gets any worst around here, I might go over their instead.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Liar! pics to prove it!
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6We'll send you a whitepaper and await your judgement on how "good" we're doing.
- DjOverEZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I would have laughed so hard if the site had been dugg to death. The irony would kill me.
- skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Let's crash their server.
- eboskie1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13I work for a cable company as an head end tech. You should see some of the equipment I work with. 6 terabytes of VOD storage on a 3 cluster node server serving around 35,000 streams a day. 16, 15000 ultra wide SCSI raided for our billing system. We have similair dell servers too, I wish I could take pictures but I don't think they would like that. 60 million hits a day though, thats some big numbers...
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Thanks for that report Anderson Cooper.
The other servers just aren't directly involved with AuctionAds. They do other tasks. - ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6carguy84:
Every ad impression is 2 hits. 1 for the javascript, 1 for the ad HTML. Take the 60M hits, divide by 2, and you're at the ad impressions. Given that, its not a completely meaningless figure when it comes to guaging how much data its pushing. - ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5wow. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Thanks. And yes, this is the work of 1 person..myself. - nickbender, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7how many hits does digg get a day?
- djjuice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6check out Apple's setup from NAB, may be a little over the top but it did its job over there:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/19/high_quality_photos_of_apple_at_nab_2007.html
130 Xserve components and over 3 miles of fiber optic cable. - rlutterb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9"shows there rack and talks a little about there."
huh? - dynacrylic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13"Whoop de doo, Bazzle, but what does it all mean?"
- KarbonKopy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I guess being around data centers causes me to be less impressed? 60 Million hits is damn nice though! That's not much hardware to be handling that kind of traffic...are we missing a few racks?
- effigy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you read the article it expands on the "hits".
"400 hits/sec at peak times
58 gigs of Javascript per day
134 gigs of HTML per day
16 gigs of RAM cache
1.1 gigs of MySQL (yes, only)"
58Gigs plus 134Gigs of html (plus they didn't mention Pics I'm assuming it's part of the html. Equals a lot of traffic. - FazliS85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ahh...thats nothing...my wife has a better rack!
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4jerrycan,
The 2 shiny things in the back on top are the Equalizers. - ElliotShoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5you sir don't know what you're talking about.
you're probably a level 1 tech sitting behind a helpdesk escalating calls to tier 2 techs lol...
they're using 8 servers to handle 400 hits a second!! thats pretty damn good... and their sql database only amounts to 1.1 gbs... - sandiegojoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3..everyones an "expert".....
- ttfadia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Same here, the CCR at the University at Buffalo (which I walk by every day) has about a thousand of those.
- Spelvin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Well why bother posting a pic of some random rack and labeling some of it and not all there billy bob?
- ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3eBay takes care of the thumbnails, thank god.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This turned into a nerd epeen fest...and how.
- WhatiFind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Congrats shoemoney! :)
- Ogopogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2.. pictures ... or it does't exist
- grammarpolice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have a photographic memory as well, its just out of film. Haha.
- imacashew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ok....I seem to be the only one impressed by the 1.1 gigs of MySql data.....for this kind of traffic that sounds pretty damn low. That 16 gigs of Caching RAM must be put to good use. Either MySQL does a far superior job of caching repetative data than MS SQL Server, or they have some sweet data caching layer built into their architecture.
On the other hand as an auction site...maybe their data is extremely repedative....and that's why it's cached so much. Which at the same time makes this traffic less impressive in my mind. - computergod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, "heavy iron" or "big iron" usually referrers to IBM kit.
Like this lovely thing:
http://www-06.ibm.com/systems/jp/photo/p/picture/sys595.jpg
2TB of RAM :) - ddn3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"These things are just serving up flat files." That couldn't be farther from accurate. While it is true that almost everything is done in memory, they're doing a LOT more than serving flat files.
- rogerwebb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You didn't even look at what they're serving. None of it is static content. No wonder they didn't use Citrix hardware. You people are dense. Also a load balancer would make a lot of sense with 1 server...wait no it wouldn't.
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