http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_servers_does_Google_have
<http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_servers_does_Google_have>Google currently have around 1 million servers. Mega sites can't be done cheaply. One of the benefits of cloud services is they can scale to meet demand as the servers are all virtual and you just spin up new instances as required. Having said that, a site like Facebook could probably run on one server, as long as you have no traffic. With MySpace's current market trajectory you can probably buy it in a year for a dollar. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Tom Rutter <therut...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm actually not doing anything, just wanted to know if sites like > facebook, myspace, google images, etc would be possible to run fairly > cheaply using a web hoster or would they really need dedicated private > servers. > > >
