Scalability

Who Has the Most Web Servers?

geekr

14 May 2009

An interesting post on DataCenterKnowledge!

1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers
Rackspace: 50,038 servers
The Planet: 48,500 servers
Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers
OVH: 40,000 servers
SBC Communications: 29,193 servers
Verizon: 25,788 servers
Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers
SoftLayer: 21,000 servers
AT&T: 20,268 servers
iWeb: 10,000 servers
How about Google, Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, GoDaddy, Facebook? Check out the post on DataCenterKnowledge and of course here on highscalability.com!

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