Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Facebook Server Reaches Estimated 60 Thousand Units

CALIFORNIA - Every web site will definitely increase the number of servers when successfully hook the millions of visitors. Similarly with the social networking site founded Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook.

With the number of users that nearly penetrated approximately 500 million users, Facebook continues to add server capacity so as not to interfere with user convenience in mengaskes site. Based on data dataCenterKnowledge, Facebook continues to increase the number of servers since six months ago, even the number had risen to two-fold.

Softpedia, Tuesday (29/06/2010), spread, number of servers facebook has now reached approximately 60 thousand units. Whereas six months ago, only amounting to 30 thousand units.

But, Facebook is reluctant to mention exactly the number of servers they have. Server is an essential component a site provider. Server is the computer that served as steward network. Server manage data traffic on the network and provide a resource that can be used by other computers connected in a network. The server serves all the nodes, if nodes need. Server there are several kinds of file servers, disk servers, and database servers.

Number of Facebook's database server has been increasing since 2009, but the number of servers increased at most occurred in 2008. Infrastructure development in the social networking, is a step from Facebook in order to avoid confusion like that experienced by their neighbors, Twitter.

June 15 and then, some users criticized jebloknya Twitter Twitter servers causing mikroblogging site is disturbed. Twitter This error was caused by excessive capacity.

Interference with the internal server Twitter has caused a number of written messages that Twitter users do not appear, and some even sent two to three times.