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plentyoffish.wordpress.com — "I think digg.com wins the worst infrustructure/setup award of any major site hands down." Massive bloat and poor architecture has resulted in digg requiring a huge number of servers to handle a relatively light load compared to other popular sites. "If their [myspace] infrastructure was as bad as digg.com’s they would need 18,750 servers!!!"
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- nwily, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I must admit, I was intrigued by the title. I read the link, and on the surface, it seems interesting. Here's the thing: find the source for the "75 servers" number. I dare you. It's a footnote in the "Howstuffworks" article. The exact quote is "Digg has 12 employees [ref] and about 75 servers." It doesn't say "75 production web servers." I would wager a significant number are development, testing, email, redundancy, not to mention any number of internal use machines.
- fkr2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dev servers would be an inconsequential amount - they may face stress testing but aside from that they'd have a very small user load. Mail servers would be inconsequential, "email this" is unlikely to be as common as pageviews. The vast majority of the 75 would be web and database. I would be very surprised if they have even 15 mail & development servers.
"In the Diggnation podcast recorded on June 14, 2006, Kevin Rose puts the total number of servers in the area of 75."
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/digg1.htm
- fkr2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dev servers would be an inconsequential amount - they may face stress testing but aside from that they'd have a very small user load. Mail servers would be inconsequential, "email this" is unlikely to be as common as pageviews. The vast majority of the 75 would be web and database. I would be very surprised if they have even 15 mail & development servers.
- ajmoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4you are a tool :)
- JohnDaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Also keep in mind it's common to separate database servers from web servers
- tinker123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I can't wait until the Ubuntu folks fix the bug where digg.com is slow as hell using the firefox and ubuntun combination ( firefox + windows + digg works fine for me on my XP box at work )
- trnscndr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is silly. Digg is far more technologically advanced than others. I have 3 employees including me and we have 12 servers including those in productivity service. But, I'm no networking guy. I assume Digg is claiming productivity, R&D as part of their 75. Plus I would say having too much hardware is better than NOT enough.
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