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Does anybody know the hosting of this?
Ive heard it's hosted on clustered redhat PCs, but am unsure of the amount and specs. I imagine there mostly PIIIs on 100/133fsbs, yeah? and about 250 of these?
Anybody got an idea?
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Hi
Does anybody know the hosting of this?
Ive heard it's hosted on clustered redhat PCs, but am unsure of the amount and specs. I imagine there mostly PIIIs on 100/133fsbs, yeah? and about 250 of these?
Anybody got an idea?
cheers
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pentium whatever's, bought cheap, run bare (i.e. mobo, cpu, ram, no case or anything)
and about 10,000 of them.
some details here: (purely speculation though)
http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/How_many_Google_machines
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10,000? just to host the .co.uk and not .com? the .com must at least 10 times that then ?Originally Posted by directhex
I never thought there'd be more than 1000 unless there all 66fsb p1/p2s.
Maybe they have 10,000 386 and 486s hosting it lol
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google's site specs a job for a data center person to manage and maintain it's 10,000 pc linux cluster here:
http://www.google.com/jobs/eng/data.html
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i'd have thought the .co.uk (and all regional google sites) and .com site point at the same cluster, just with extra filtering for the .co.uk searches
wow this went clean over my head! intresting read!
they don't have separate clusters for .co.uk, .fr, etc etc etc - they're all run centrally. you simply _CANNOT_ separate them out, logically or otherwise
Google's clusters are the fastest in the world, IIRC.
They're the biggest/fastest/bestest something, anyway.
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You mean all the servers are in one place/conected to the same backbone? Surely that wouldnt be sensible.
they're massively unreliable, but there's also massive redundancy - hundreds could blow without any effect whatsoever on google's service
Pings to google.co.uk for me are 31/32ms.
Pings to google.com for me are 170/180ms.
I can't see how they're both hosted on the same cluster tbh
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akamai caching.
which makes things even more complex, if you really want that explained
I would imagine that there would be at least 3 distinct clusters.
One cluster that forms the "spider colonie", just goes out on the web and collects text, and then inserts into the database cluster.
One cluster that forms the database cluster, probably a mixture of load balanced sql servers of some kind and a very big SAN back end.
One cluster that forms the actual search page that you see, all that does is querys the database cluster and returns results.
As for the cluster sizes. It cant easilly be guessed at without knowing exactly what software they use and the number of requests etc.
That would be my guess anyway.
Butuz
i'm working on numbers & setups google themselves have mentionned
Whats that (if you have time to explain).
EDIT Just used Google to check it out.
Interesting but how does dns work on that?
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