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Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center by aleem on Sunday August 19, 2012 @02:48AM (#4403417)
That is 1 server for every 50 users.

Seems a bit excessive at first think but that is the price of resilience.

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Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center by powertower on Sunday August 19, 2012 @10:25AM (#4404064)
900MM-users div 180KK-servers = 5000 users/server

Considering only a fraction of that is concurrent users at any given time (maybe 10%), it still seem a bit excessive, but they're not running a web server, they're pushing data around so it's a bit different.

They also have to handle peak times and have redundancy.

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