eweek.com— The ultrapopular auction/sales Web site continues its exponential growth and finds itself adding 10 terabytes of new storage every week. That's a lot of data.
Oct 31, 2006View in Crawl 4
well.. as I said below... the author of that story needs to check his facts. 1B/day is pretty old... last time I was in the NOC (bright and early last Monday morning) the big screen on the wall said one colo was pushing ~24gb/s... while I know that ebay's home page is on the porky side, thats still a _lot_ of hits.
Well its not like they have to boast anyway.. The fact that it runs as well as it does with the amount of use it gets and storage that it has to take into account daily is proof enough that what they are doing simply works
10 terabytes might be a bit of data, but it's not as huge as it used to be. 10 terabytes storage would cost only about $5,850 at about $450 for 750GB HD.
Maybe the reference to Web 2.0 isn't about style or AJAX, but more about social interaction, an idea very common across most Web 2.0 sites. While the term "Web 2.0" may be new, the idea that it describes is not. I believe maybe this case is simply an application of a new term to an old web site.
jawaddeNov 1, 2006
you forgot to mention that digg and ebay are at the same level of profitability as well :-)
elqedNov 1, 2006
well.. as I said below... the author of that story needs to check his facts. 1B/day is pretty old... last time I was in the NOC (bright and early last Monday morning) the big screen on the wall said one colo was pushing ~24gb/s... while I know that ebay's home page is on the porky side, thats still a _lot_ of hits.
Closed AccountNov 1, 2006
Well its not like they have to boast anyway.. The fact that it runs as well as it does with the amount of use it gets and storage that it has to take into account daily is proof enough that what they are doing simply works
mikeazorinNov 1, 2006
10 terabytes might be a bit of data, but it's not as huge as it used to be. 10 terabytes storage would cost only about $5,850 at about $450 for 750GB HD.
kilroy2004Nov 1, 2006
Yeah... and since when is Ebay considered Web2.0? As far as I know... nothing has changed on Ebay to make it worthy of Web2.0-ness.
rbanffyNov 1, 2006
"are hitting compiler limits on number of methods per class."Let's stop pretending it's a class and just call it a library.
geezusfreeekNov 1, 2006
Maybe the reference to Web 2.0 isn't about style or AJAX, but more about social interaction, an idea very common across most Web 2.0 sites. While the term "Web 2.0" may be new, the idea that it describes is not. I believe maybe this case is simply an application of a new term to an old web site.
mattyfuNov 2, 2006
A $50 purchase that they made money off of...