From an interesting article in Data Center Knowledge Who has the Most Web Servers:
- 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers (company)
- OVH: 55,000 servers (company)
- Rackspace: 50,038 servers (company)
- The Planet: 48,500 servers (company)
- Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers (company)
- SBC Communications: 29,193 servers (Netcraft)
- Verizon: 25,788 servers (Netcraft)
- Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers (Netcraft)
- SoftLayer: 21,000 servers (company)
- AT&T: 20,268 servers (Netcraft)
- Peer1/ServerBeach: 10,277 servers (company)
- iWeb: 10,000 servers (company)
The article continues to speculate on server counts at the companies that publically disclose server counts but are likely over 50k. Google is likely around a million, microsoft is over 200k, and “Amazon says very little about its data center operations”.
–jrh
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Hey, I’ll talk about interesting products like SimpleDB but who wants to hear about boring old details on large, unlit data centers :-).
If only we knew someone at Amazon who knew about their data center operations and could leak some of that interesting information :)