I think Capacity wise Facebook is the good place to start as no other website has experienced kind of volume and traffic that Facebook has witnessed in the recent past.
As you have not specified whether You want to know more about the infrastructure, security or you are interested in their operating model, staff size and remote site management? I would go with the general details.
Facebook has multiple data centers around the world and the reason behind this is a common knowledge i.e huge volume of the data that FB process on daily basis.
Facebook is currently the world’s most popular web site, with more than 1 trillion page views each month, according to metrics from Google’s DoubleClick service. Facebook currently accounts for about 9 percent of all Internet traffic, slightly more than Google, according to HitWise.
This is the first data center of the Facebook in Prineville
FB realized that they need many data centers in different locations to support the performance demand of their growing users. Facebook has 300,000 square feet massive data center in North Carolina
The new data center Oregon was announced as being 147,000 square feet,
how do they get data center very fast ? There are some business model called wholesale data center space where third party constructs the physical infrastructure, does capacity planning and provides cooling and power supply and lease it to companies like Facebook. This model has been proven very successful to the Facebook in the past as they can save time of building something from scratch. However Facebook has plan to construct their own data centers and i believe they already have a few.
Facebook has more than 66,000 servers, They do have customized application server, hardware(s) powered by Intel and AMD.
Also see : What is Facebook's architecture?
Facebook has spent more than $1 Billion on network equipment alone to support their social networking platform and lease on wholesale data center spaces are an added expense.
All the location of FB data center have been chosen very wisely taking the eco system and climate into consideration.
Also see: Take a walk through a Google data center
As you have not specified whether You want to know more about the infrastructure, security or you are interested in their operating model, staff size and remote site management? I would go with the general details.
Facebook has multiple data centers around the world and the reason behind this is a common knowledge i.e huge volume of the data that FB process on daily basis.
Facebook is currently the world’s most popular web site, with more than 1 trillion page views each month, according to metrics from Google’s DoubleClick service. Facebook currently accounts for about 9 percent of all Internet traffic, slightly more than Google, according to HitWise.
This is the first data center of the Facebook in Prineville
FB realized that they need many data centers in different locations to support the performance demand of their growing users. Facebook has 300,000 square feet massive data center in North Carolina
The new data center Oregon was announced as being 147,000 square feet,
how do they get data center very fast ? There are some business model called wholesale data center space where third party constructs the physical infrastructure, does capacity planning and provides cooling and power supply and lease it to companies like Facebook. This model has been proven very successful to the Facebook in the past as they can save time of building something from scratch. However Facebook has plan to construct their own data centers and i believe they already have a few.
Facebook has more than 66,000 servers, They do have customized application server, hardware(s) powered by Intel and AMD.
Also see : What is Facebook's architecture?
Facebook has spent more than $1 Billion on network equipment alone to support their social networking platform and lease on wholesale data center spaces are an added expense.
All the location of FB data center have been chosen very wisely taking the eco system and climate into consideration.
Also see: Take a walk through a Google data center
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