Archive for April, 2010

Check out this great infograph from Intac.net showing who owns the most servers. Google is depicted as the large yellow block below the others.

EricTric.com: “Think Google’s worldwide operations are gigantic? Well, you’re right. A new infographic distributed by Intac displays exactly how many servers some of the world’s top technology companies own and use to power their incredibly large and sophisticated operations.

For example, RackSpace (who hosts Erictric) is said to own over 56,000 servers. Trailing close behind is The Planet, a popular host who cares for over 15 million websites, with a server count of just over 48,000. What about Facebook? 30,000. Intel? 100,000.

But what about Google, the internet’s superpower? Try over one million servers. According to the graphic, “it is speculated that Google owns more than 2% of all the world’s servers.””

Gizmodo.com: “You already just sort of know, logically and instinctively, that Google’s got a ridiculous number of servers working for them. That doesn’t make it any less mind-boggling when visualized. Get ready for a lot of scrolling.

Of course, not all servers are created equal—so “more” is a problematic word here. And I’m betting this wouldn’t look quite so lopsided if big hitters like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon were represented. Regardless, though, such a massive difference of scale is incredibly impressive, even if not entirely surprising.”