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- Junior612, on 05/16/2009, -3/+251Your mom has the most rack space.
- 919kwjc, on 05/16/2009, -5/+116Applebees has the most servers.
- Kuci06, on 05/15/2009, -4/+115Google...
- castong, on 05/16/2009, -1/+55This list is inaccurate. SBC and AT&T are the same company. Welcome to 2005.
- mantis108, on 05/16/2009, -3/+41One of the best applications of a your mom joke I've seen in awhile, kudos to you sir.
- SteveIsTheDude, on 05/16/2009, -1/+27Waffle House Inc. has more servers.... They are the most advanced and technically savy company in the world.
- enantiodromia, on 05/16/2009, -0/+24lol, ok... i'm sure you know better than one of the most hard core engineering centric companies around.
- Duffle, on 05/16/2009, -2/+25The internet, duh.
- 1Bad, on 05/16/2009, -2/+22It means there is a lot of open space in Texas that no one is using.
- linagee, on 05/16/2009, -3/+21Misleading digg title. "Who has the most servers?". Article title: "Who has the most *web* servers?"
- xkot, on 05/16/2009, -0/+18Two big factors are the low cost of land and some of the least expensive electricity rates in the country. Combine those with a strong technical talent base without the inflated wages of the west coast, and Texas is full of win.
- sevenalive, on 05/16/2009, -0/+16Do you even know what a rack is?
- proliance, on 05/16/2009, -0/+15True, but have you ever tried to do a firmware update on a 22 yr. old server named Bethany?
- nix64, on 05/16/2009, -0/+11KA POW.
- localzuk, on 05/16/2009, -0/+10You seem to be missing something out here - they design and build their servers themselves, utilising off the shelf products. They actively work to reduce the energy consumption as they go. This very fact was discussed on here a few months ago.
Generally quad quad core servers with 64gb of ram are power hungry beasts. I should know, I run servers that are a quarter of that spec and they chew through power like there is no tomorrow.
You also don't take into account the nature of their service. The fact that they have millions of requests heading their way every minute, from all around the world. Every millisecond counts for them. - trizzleatl, on 05/16/2009, -2/+12Yeah, also called a boob job
- jemka, on 05/16/2009, -0/+10They are probably constantly upgrading some part of the farm.
- enrq, on 05/16/2009, -1/+11cookies n cream linux
- travistubbs, on 05/16/2009, -6/+15Noticing a pattern with there being a lot of Texas-based companies. RackSpace, ThePlanet, SoftLayer, ServerBeach, and AT&T/SBC are all based in Texas. Let's just pretend that all their Data Centers are in the same state (logically, they aren't, but let's just pretend). That would be 234,000+ servers in the state of Texas alone. That's nearly 60% of the servers in that list alone!!
What does this mean? I honestly have no idea. I doubt it means anything. :P - thefreehunter, on 05/16/2009, -0/+8Their own flavor of Linux.
- R0B0Ninja, on 05/16/2009, -0/+8I have always wondered: What OS does Google run on its servers?
- ebcreasoner, on 05/16/2009, -4/+12Holy crap, I know that midget too!!!
- psykiv, on 05/16/2009, -1/+8I think they have that many servers for a reason. If a couple hundred servers go down, they won't even notice. With 10,000 super powerful servers, if a couple hundred go down, the world will end.
- inactive, on 05/16/2009, -1/+7I remember RackSpace handing me a flyer when it was a new startup. Pretty cool to see it has become the most hugest ***** hosting company in the world.
- jemka, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6India marketing, go away.
- trizzleatl, on 05/16/2009, -1/+7No prayer. Seperation of church and state. Only duct tape.
- JoshReedSchramm, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6Youtube is google. Google bought them a couple years back. So the server numbers for youtube are typically counted with google.
- laibixi, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6THE NSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ilithium, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6Mine is bigger than yours...
- Schrum, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6Blue icon? Don't you mean the icon with the fox?
- linagee, on 05/16/2009, -1/+7It means they might all be hosted in the same building by the same company resold under different names. For colos that you can't visit, how would you ever know? I guess if you were a server monkey you would know.
- pw378, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6It means Texas actually has cheap, affordable and available POWER. No rolling brownouts like California, or insanely high electric bills to pay for the all hippie social programs and save the planet crap.
Texas is the Chuck Norris of the 50 U.S. States. - petemorley, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6I highly doubt that they'd buy in a completely new set of 10,000 servers as opposed to adding to/upgrading their existing ones.
- Brassbud, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5I'm pretty there are a lot of companies that make this list and just don't report it. I'm confident a company I used to work for far exeeded this number, as just one of the locations must have had 10k.
- Trollemite, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Here's the report they reference: http://news.netcraft.com/hosting-provider-server-c ...
"Netcraft has developed a technique for identifying the number of computers (rather than IP addresses) acting as web servers on the internet, and attributes these computers to hosting locations through reverse DNS lookups."
If you read towards the end of the report they state they only count web servers, not the supporting backend servers (database, etc) so the numbers are still off. - 4321234, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5"Most people buy computers one at a time, but Google thinks on a very different scale. Jimmy Clidaras revealed that the core of the company's data centers are composed of standard 1AAA shipping containers packed with 1,160 servers each, with many containers in each data center."
http://www.makingsenseofspace.com/ - thefreehunter, on 05/16/2009, -1/+5No, they have one, a PII with 32mb of ram. Occasionally when they run out of seating, they use it as an extra chair. It usually crashes at this point.
- zippy757, on 05/16/2009, -1/+5...list has major flaws in it..companies like IBM, EDS, CSC etc register most of their customers servicer that they run in their customers names...not their own name...I know IBM manages at least 450K servers ( 2004 data )
- enrq, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4that's what she said
wait... - bradleyland, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4You can't be serious. Have you ever actually had to use 1&1's customer service. We were a dedicated server customer with four machines there and they let us sit for four days when the network config suddenly became invalid on one of our machines. Four days.
- sandipc, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3but what about the energy cost of your useless digg post?
- falser, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Dedicated servers are going to become a thing of the past. With my limited experience with EC2 and scalr.net I can't imagine why anyone would pay for a single dedicated server these days. Join the cloud, the collective is all that matters!!
- sandipc, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3go on..?
- pw378, on 05/16/2009, -1/+4that took me a second... it was like a slow burning fuse...
I dugg it down, then got the joke and dugg it up. - headzoo, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3I would expect Amazon to have a dizzying number of servers. Not just for the .com, but also for all their services. S3, EC2, media servers, Kindle content delivery servers, etc.
- vulcanius, on 05/16/2009, -1/+4This is based on the number of IPs which doesn't necessarily reflect how many servers they actually have.
- Johnglave, on 05/16/2009, -1/+4Digg has the most servers i thought,
- cyberoidx, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Umm, thats not the power efficient way to run servers.
Around '95, they realised that having multiple low power blade servers rather than one large power hungry server was more efficient. (Power / Query)
I might be wrong, but I think I heard that Google's servers can run off small 5V battery's - pw378, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3What is your address, I'll send you a Google bumper sticker...
- Cubedude04, on 05/16/2009, -1/+3Google probably manages YouTubes servers now so it probally falls under them.
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