Why does digg need so many servers?
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Why does digg need so many servers?
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Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#2Non-linearity.
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#3Just as perplexing, why do they need ~68 employees (http://about.digg.com/team).
My counting may be off by 1-2, but last I checked Reddit is coming up on them traffic-wise (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/), and only has 7 employees? And I'm pretty sure Reddit doesn't have 500 servers either, although I could be wrong.
Both sites offer very similar functionality.
While past its peak, Slashdot only has 18 servers. (http://slashdot.org/faq/tech.shtml#te050)
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#4My last job served around 30-40 million pages a month on 4 servers that used ASP.Net and SQL Server 2000. The only server whose CPU utilization was over 20% was the database server. I'm not sure the CPU utilization on the web servers ever went above 10%.
A friend of mine's company has a tough time keeping up with 500,000 page views a month using more equipment. They're using PHP and MySQL.
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#5Depends on the servers to, I'm sure it would take more than 5 servers that Google run to run SO.
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#6One thing is for sure, Spolsky sure knows how to scale his ego.
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#7Non-linearity.
Even then, 500 servers? That's an incredible amount.
EDIT: Then again Facebook is using 60000 servers at the moment.
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#8One thing is for sure, Spolsky sure knows how to scale his ego.
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#9Just as perplexing, why do they need ~68 employees ( http://about.digg.com/team ). My counting may be off by 1-2, but last I checked Reddit is coming up on them traffic-wise ( http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/ ), and only has 7 employees? And I'm pretty sure Reddit doesn't have 500 servers either, although I could be wrong. Both sites offer very similar functionality. While past its peak, Slashdot…
reddit uses something like 250-300 EC2 nodes.
Re: Why does digg need so many servers?
#10My last job served around 30-40 million pages a month on 4 servers that used ASP.Net and SQL Server 2000. The only server whose CPU utilization was over 20% was the database server. I'm not sure the CPU utilization on the web servers ever went above 10%. A friend of mine's company has a tough time keeping up with 500,000 page views a month using more equipment. They're using PHP and MySQL.
So, do you get free coffee in the cantina at Microsoft?