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FaceBook has 30,000 servers and serves 600,000 images per second!

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth in Knowledge

How many servers does Facebook have?

30,000 servers! How?
Before 18 Months back Facebook had about 10,000 servers but in those 18 months, the company has seen lot of growth an had borrowed a sum of $100 million which was probably for setting up 20,000 servers.

600,000 Images served every second!
Facebook, has 300 Million Active users which have stored 80 Billion Images in their servers and they are accessed at the rate of 600,000 Images per second!

25,000 GB Log Data saved Daily!
Well, with 300 million users and growing Facebook stores 25 TB of data daily.

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Tags: Facebook, Servers