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I've been hanging around data centers for over 25 years, I never get tired of 'em. I came upon this article on MySpace a while back, I'm not a fan of their site but I'm stunned at how big their data center is! I would so love to see it.
They go over how they expanded from a single database server and two web servers up to where they are now. Kind of long, but well written. Everything they do is now on SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2003. They still have some Cold Fusion, but it's running under a BlueDragon.Net, all of their code otherwise is C#/ASP.Net.
The hardware of MySpace?
"Standard database server configuration consists of Hewlett-Packard HP 585 servers with 4 AMD Opteron dual-core, 64-bit processors with 64 gigabytes of memory (recently upgraded from 32). The operating system is Windows 2003, Service Pack 1; the database software is Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 1. There's a 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet network card, plus two host bus adapters for storage area network communications. The infrastructure for the core user profiles application includes 65 of these database servers with a total capacity of more than 2 terabytes of memory, 520 processors and 130 gigabytes of network throughput. Source: MySpace.com user conference presentations"
I think I would be more than a little intimidated to work there. It would definitely be interesting.
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp
Second Life is, obviously, no where near as big as MySpace. Still, it's worthy of note. Unfortunately the article is no where near as geekworthy from a server farm standpoint as the info on the MySpace farms.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800179
They go over how they expanded from a single database server and two web servers up to where they are now. Kind of long, but well written. Everything they do is now on SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2003. They still have some Cold Fusion, but it's running under a BlueDragon.Net, all of their code otherwise is C#/ASP.Net.
The hardware of MySpace?
"Standard database server configuration consists of Hewlett-Packard HP 585 servers with 4 AMD Opteron dual-core, 64-bit processors with 64 gigabytes of memory (recently upgraded from 32). The operating system is Windows 2003, Service Pack 1; the database software is Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 1. There's a 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet network card, plus two host bus adapters for storage area network communications. The infrastructure for the core user profiles application includes 65 of these database servers with a total capacity of more than 2 terabytes of memory, 520 processors and 130 gigabytes of network throughput. Source: MySpace.com user conference presentations"
I think I would be more than a little intimidated to work there. It would definitely be interesting.
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp
Second Life is, obviously, no where near as big as MySpace. Still, it's worthy of note. Unfortunately the article is no where near as geekworthy from a server farm standpoint as the info on the MySpace farms.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800179
