You won't guess how many servers Google has!
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ThePacketeer
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This is a look inside the belgian datacenter: hxxp:// youtu . be/zRwPSFpLX8I
This is a look at the water treatment plant they build to cool the datacenter: hxxp:// youtu . be/nPjZvFuUKN8
Please note that this setup is very different from a regular datacenter where every john doe can host his servers, these are most of the time big rooms with a false floor (for cabling) devided into cages filled with 19" racks filled with 19" servers. They are mostly cooled by airconditioning ducts underneat the floor pumping cold air into the racks and a big suction system attached to the sealing sucking away excess heat generated by the servers.
This is a look at the water treatment plant they build to cool the datacenter: hxxp:// youtu . be/nPjZvFuUKN8
Please note that this setup is very different from a regular datacenter where every john doe can host his servers, these are most of the time big rooms with a false floor (for cabling) devided into cages filled with 19" racks filled with 19" servers. They are mostly cooled by airconditioning ducts underneat the floor pumping cold air into the racks and a big suction system attached to the sealing sucking away excess heat generated by the servers.
madoctopus
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Just to make a few things clear here...
The servers are split in many data centers across the globe. Most if not all of their DCs are very different than regular DCs. They are doing split testing on their DCs - they implement one DC in a way and another one in a different way and then work on optimizing them. Then, at the end of a year, they check which DC architecture was the most efficient (less power consumption) and use it as a baseline for future tests and new DCs. On average Google DCs have 50% less power requirements.
source: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/
Also, Google is researching innovative ways to build data centers, including data centers located in the ocean. Waves would generate the required energy to operate the DC and the water would be used for cooling. They actually have patents for this.
The servers are split in many data centers across the globe. Most if not all of their DCs are very different than regular DCs. They are doing split testing on their DCs - they implement one DC in a way and another one in a different way and then work on optimizing them. Then, at the end of a year, they check which DC architecture was the most efficient (less power consumption) and use it as a baseline for future tests and new DCs. On average Google DCs have 50% less power requirements.
source: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/
Also, Google is researching innovative ways to build data centers, including data centers located in the ocean. Waves would generate the required energy to operate the DC and the water would be used for cooling. They actually have patents for this.
accelerator_dd
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LOL, take that, DDOSing google with an army of 13mil bots would be like 13 bots per server = lame LOL. Nice protection 
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madoctopus
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Me too.
No. Just been reading a bit about its data centers and infrastructure.
kensai
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google does not have servers as most people perceive them, they have huge farms of simple hardware ranging from simple pentium 4's to i7s and amd and everything in between, That way they can harness the power of all cpus in a megagrid that provides teraflops of unheard computing power and storage. thats all folks..move along now..
ktsaravanan
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Nice count..
eloquenceeee
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That's absolutely unbelievable!
I read the book Googled, and apparently Google has servers that they don't even tell people about all around the world.
I read the book Googled, and apparently Google has servers that they don't even tell people about all around the world.
madoctopus
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Tctually that is not intirely true. they started like that with cheap consumer grade hardware but now they use custom built servers. The latest server config they made public (and they use in the container DCs) is a dual-CPU, 16GB RAM, dual HDD with custom built PSU and backup battery. Here's a picture of it. The black thing on right is the battery and on the left u see the PSU. You can search on google for "google server" for more details.
As far I know. they have there own custom architecture for servers. Also they have there own server OS for them. And regarding reliability, Most of top sites servers are cloud these days to achieve great reliability and uptime. And hostgator is just providing services from theplanet. If you have talent you too can take a server from theplanet and start a web host. Another big guys I know are Endurance international who owns around 40 brands(ipage,fatcow,vpslink and a name of the host I dont want to reveal) , 1and1 , bluehost also big. And you can even get a cloud hosting starting from $250/month(good one for moderate sites) from theplanet.
Whatever Google server always rocks.
Whatever Google server always rocks.
ThePacketeer
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Larry and Sergey started out back in their college dormroom only indexing stanford domains. (these are the pictures of the legoblock servers when it was still named backrub (refering to backlinks)). After they noticed users prefered to use their SE instead of the big ones they opened it up to the internet. Ofcourse webpages were mostly simple text with a few lowres images back then, so dormroom bandwith was sufficient. After a while they tried to sell their project to yahoo who wasn't interested because they said SE weren't the future, portals where. They found backrub was not really a good name so they named it Googol (a math term) but spelled it incorrectly.
Then they got an angel investor who invested 500K into Google Inc. while this company did not even exist. So they put their education on pause, maxed out creditcards and lend money from family and friends and scraped about 100K together. they rented a friends garage from this, got 2 internet connections to it and bought some cheap of the shelf hardware for servers.
Then they started Google Inc. and could cash the cheque for 500K.
This was the big start ofcourse. They attracted employees by giving them 'stock' etc etc. These are the guys who are now millionaires because they were there in the beginning. Don't think any new employee that starts now will get that rich
And the rest is history... Google now makes enough money on advertising that it can finance itself