I can see facebook staying for a while, it gives it's users the illusion that other people care about what they are doing...
how!? My result:
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30,000 servers, 25tb of log data per day - all so your mum can poke you
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how!? My result:There will be offsite backup servers. Backups are your friend.
In which case they must have 60,000 servers. (or at least an aweful lot of tape drives)
Talking about whether they'll reveal the server specs - At work we have crazy numbers of proximity servers near exchanges. We take some extreme measures to closely guard their specs and identity from competitor's prying eyes who share the same data centre.
By selling your photos.
Advertisments.... Its linked to your profiles... You post about a PS3 game, and it has adverts about PS3, if you're single, and linked as single, dating sites come up on your page...
Me being me, I want to know what one server consists of hardware wise. Is there any info on that? I looked but can't find.I suck at searching... I'm lazy too.
Definition of a server is a fluid one: Google basically use their own proprietary box which looks like a backyard bodge up:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
Latest estimates are about 8 data centres globally for Facebook with another big one coming on line in 2011.
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Nice link, thanks.
But everyones brains have evolved to blank out every advert on a page
True for us perhaps but I'm not so sure about all the girls in their teens or people's parents who use facebook.
I'm so immune to adverts now-a-days.
Thank you for the link.
No worries - it's a really clever design to be honest. Combine it with the shipping container idea lower down and they can pretty much deploy a new DC as fast as they get the power and fibre in place. Rumour has it they are working on a mini-DC that fits into a standard flight cargo container or two
What you never see (and what they never release details of) is the storage side of things. Goggle have written their own file system though!
People who have jobs don't use Facebook? Show your working please.
Funnily enough i do work for a living, but thanks for that.
Funnily enough i know plenty of people over 30 that are on FB. Including people at my last workplace, the one before that, my current one, plenty of my relatives, friends of friends etc.. Shock horror, they all have jobs too. Mad eh.
You don't install it.
To be honest, privacy is a real concern. I don't mind posting generic crap, but nothing REALLY personal ever gets on, and the only people I "friend" are people I actually know.