How many servers do you think run GFY?
 

It gets some massive traffic... not just us whores that actually post here.

Is it just one 100mbit monster or a number of them?

I would imagine their mysql server alone must be a quad xeon with min 4 gigs of ram ...



definately not one.

my guess is that they prolly use a nice load-balance solution

BTW its a matter of time before somebody posts that Austin Powers photochop lol

It's all done on a pair of Commodore VIC20's. Be we do over-clock the hell out of them!

http://www.texasdreams.com/vic20.jpg

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It could use like someone said 4 xeons for the MySQL, or load balancing.

Don't need much space so I would think two quad xeons would do it on about a 10 meg connection.

Don;t know

i wanna know how much bandwidth this bitch goes through

4 and a half

I dunno, but they had to buy a whole damn hosting company to keep it up properly! LOL

Whatever amount of servers you think, double it. I'm always surprised at the server power behind some sites. For example, I heard a while back that nastydollars uses a server farm of 100+ servers for all of their sites.

That load balancing shit is crazy, google used to use thousands of crappy p3's, even p4's where out. But load balanced them all together some how. Still to this day they use most of those low grade servers.

Youre telling a 20+ billion $ compagny run p3 servers ?

This is a tough question to answer because we don't really know how much bandwidth that GFY burns though or the requirements of the vBulletin software when used on a server that has as many visitors as I suspect this site does.

Without that information, if I was asked to setup something similar to GFY, I'd probably suggest a load balanced, blade server configuration with a dedicated database server configuration.

The key would really be quality bandwidth though. Without a good link to the rest of the net, the site is going to seem overloaded because the pipe is full.

Just some random thoughts though - without a proper feasibility and requirements it's all a guess.

I've never heard that about goggle before. However, I know that well configured web servers can last a long time. If a server is configured well and optimized for the needs of the site, then the difference between a p3 and p4 don't amount to much.

The real cost in hosting is configuration and support. Sometimes, it is the best option to clone a second server with hardware that you know works well then use hardware that you're not sure about.

Yeah Google uses thousands and thousands of lowend servers in their farms. They have several fail every day and they just swap em out with new ones.

its on a virtual account lol

GFY has some heat running it alright.

That's a little excessive imo, this board doesn't get THAT much traffic...

I think GFY could be run off a dual xeon if it rids of all the spammers and non-webmasters.

GFY fun. Good humor talk. Lots of directions.

You asked....

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resource...R-SideView.jpg

http://www.ibeam.org/wopr.jpg

http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf...mes/image8.jpg

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I knew it....... WOPR is the only computer I know of that could handle the GFY load.


How about a nice game of chess?

E X A C T L Y :thumbsup

1 fucking big beast for mysql and 2 more for load-balacing?

The system is truly state of the art, they brought me in to change the vacuum tubes out every so often! :thumbsup

http://www.texasdreams.com/gfycomputer.jpg

Lensman bought up all the old NASA computeres from the 50's and 60's... I see.


The word shrewd comes to mind :D

I would guess 2 dual xeons configured correctly should do the job, GFY is not that big.

:1orglaugh ....ummhh no :1orglaugh

1 dual xeon should be able to handle it with php caching on. or am I wrong?

You work for a hosting company and think GFY could be hosted on a "Load Balance" on a 10meg connection :1orglaugh

BTW, The word for "Load Balance" you are looking for is .. Cluster or Round Robin..

That 10meg part was indeed funny :winkwink:

Hell yeah. I can't imagine how much heat get out of this computer :1orglaugh

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:1orglaugh :1orglaugh I was thinking hamsters, then I scroll down!!! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

the most load here is mysql, by far. Each page of vBulletin pulls data via around 20 queries, some big, some small.

I would guess a farm of 4 load balanced xeon's would do the trick.

This is just the search server:

http://www.crompton.com/wa3dsp/k3nal...computer14.jpg

Forums are text dude, they take shit to run.

Normal forums...yes...big forums like GFY...no