The Official Status Update Thread: Part 34 - Steel Magnolias

[Scutter01]

They dont want you to mess everything up, you will probably touch everything and unplug a few wires.

So INGO fits in of of those small rack thingy?
And the bigger it gets, the more threads and members it has, the bigger the server needs to be?


I thought that you would need a few racks like that to host HandK's posts alone.

It's not about the number of posts, it's about the number of database queries. We have plenty of disk space, but as the traffic to the site grows, it requires more memory and more processor. Eventually, INGO will grow so large that we'll have to separate the database and the web and put each one on its own server. The racks in that picture each hold 42 physical servers. The servers are about 1.5" high, 19" wide, and (usually) around 30-40" deep.

 

[Scutter01]

I would imagine that big sites like Youtube or Facebook need an entire room like that just to host their site.

Facebook is estimated to have over 100,000 servers. That's about 2400 racks just for servers, not including all of the networking hardware, disk subsystems, and everything else to run them. They need more than just a room like that. They have entire datacenters, and they're spread around the country. Google is estimated to have close to 500,000 servers.

 

[HandK]

They dont want you to mess everything up, you will probably touch everything and unplug a few wires.

So INGO fits in one of those small rack thingy?
And the bigger it gets, the more threads and members it has, the bigger the server needs to be?


I thought that you would need a few racks like that to host HandK's posts alone.

Fenway already told me he had to get a new server because of me!!

 

[Sylvain]

It's not about the number of posts, it's about the number of database queries. We have plenty of disk space, but as the traffic to the site grows, it requires more memory and more processor. Eventually, INGO will grow so large that we'll have to separate the database and the web and put each one on its own server. The racks in that picture each hold 42 physical servers. The servers are about 1.5" high, 19" wide, and (usually) around 30-40" deep.

Oh I see, well kinda, at my own non-nerd level.

I thought that the server was the entire room or an entire rack, not just a small part of it.
So it means that each of those racks can host 42 websites?

 

[Scutter01]

Oh I see, well kinda, at my own non-nerd level.

I thought that the server was the entire room or an entire rack, not just a small part of it.
So it means that each of those racks can host 42 websites?

No, each rack holds 42 physical computers (servers). Each server can host hundreds of websites (depending on a lot of variables). INGO, for example, needs one whole server all to itself.

 

[theweakerbrother]

Pooooooop

 

[Scutter01]

Here's a closeup of one of those racks. Each one of these is a single computer server.

INGO's entire database could fit on your cell phone and still have room for a couple of movies. It's not that big. But we have a TON of traffic.

 

[Sylvain]

Facebook is estimated to have over 100,000 servers. That's about 2400 racks just for servers, not including all of the networking hardware, disk subsystems, and everything else to run them. They need more than just a room like that. They have entire datacenters, and they're spread around the country. Google is estimated to have close to 500,000 servers.

That's huge.
I guess most people that are internet users like myself but that dont know much about how it works have no idea of the room it takes to "host the internet".
I mean for me an many people the internet is just a big virtual space, not an actual place with huge builings full of servers that are actually somewhere an taking an entire building.

 

[Roadie]

No, each rack holds 42 physical computers (servers). Each server can host hundreds of websites (depending on a lot of variables). INGO, for example, needs one whole server all to itself.

Well you know, if you would get rid of those Soviet Russia prohibition rules, this site could take of its training wheels and grow into TWO servers!

 

[theweakerbrother]

Which one does Keanu Reeves live in?

 

[Roadie]

Which one does Keanu Reeves live in?

All of them

 

[theweakerbrother]

OMG

 

[Scutter01]

That's huge.
I guess most people that are internet users like myself but that dont know much about how it works have no idea of the room it takes to "host the internet".
I mean for me an many people the internet is just a big virtual space, not an actual place with huge builings full of servers that are actually somewhere an taking an entire building.

I guarantee you that you drive by at least two datacenters at least as big as the ones in those pictures every day of your life and you don't realize it. They're not big on advertising their contents on the outside of the building.

Heck, if you see a building at the base of a broadcast antenna and that building is larger than a shed, it's a mini datacenter and probably has at least a couple of hundred servers in it.

 

[! twitty]

twb you coming to the m&e saturday?

 

[Scutter01]

I'm going down to the datacenter I work in next week. I'll take some pictures. For now, I'm going to go play XBox.

 

[theweakerbrother]

I dunno.

 

[Sylvain]

I'm going down to the datacenter I work in next week. I'll take some pictures. For now, I'm going to go play XBox.

Nerd.



Thanks for the future pics and the pervious explanations.

 

[theweakerbrother]

Dude you should upgrade to an XBox 360.

 

[! twitty]

I'm going down to the datacenter I work in next week. I'll take some pictures. For now, I'm going to go play XBox.

Where do you work, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Mosinowner]

LOL, WUT??