scary size
As part of the ‘amaze non techies about computery things’ campaign this week, I’m pleased to add some information that Simon B alerted me to. There is a website called [istock photo](http://www.istockphoto.com “istockphoto”) which most of us have never heard of and is certainly not as big as some websites. It allows designers to buy royalty free stock photography. Now here’s the amazing bit: They’re upgrading their servers…
> With 15,000 servers deployed in over 1,100 networks across 65 countries, everyone from Tahoma to Tokyo should find up to 10x speed in page loads on localized servers.
Yes that’s 15,000 high spec. computers for one website! Anyone know how many Google have?
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
One response to scary size
search for “how many servers google” (using google of course…) and it seems the answer is anywhere between 45,000 and 200,000 (and presumably growing by the day).
blimey.