- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: sir_brilliant
put it this way...it fills a room and there are tens of thousands of people on the website (not on all together, mind you). So it doesn't really matter how many servers they are, but rather what kind of servers they are.
That's not true. The quality of the servers + the number of the servers = an highly elastic and expandable dynamic content delivery service. Google has an estimated 30,000-70,000 computers--and clearly those going to be cutting edge blade servers. Google intentionally has a image-low site to keep the bandwidth-sucking serving costs down.
Either way: for big sites, it's quality and quantity. I guarentee you that Bungie.net is not running on a couple hundred of these.
[Edited on 5/25/2006]