Picture of Google?s First Production Server
 

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/491/serverch8.jpg
This one is from around 1999. By 2000, Google had around 4000 of these servers.

dayum!! :eek2

thats not a server

that is a rack, with a bunch of caseless servers in it

True. It's Googles rack of cheap networked PCs:thumbsup

i'd hate to see the size of the server gerbil turds inside of that rig:Oh crap

sweet jebus

/me bows to google

Google has changed so much here is a look at google over the years from archive.org (interesting shit) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com

And the beauty is that several of the PCs on the never worked but the system design was optimized around multiple computer failures.

Apparently, they now have 300-400 thousand servers and order them in units of 10,000.

How big are they now as in number of servers ?

Be interesting.

2c

My lord!

Some say they have 1 million servers, but the number I hear more often is about 300 thousands. I know they recently started using AMD processors instead Intel Xeons because power consumption was starting to cost them more than hardware.

Insane, and very inspiring :thumbsup

Pretty cool. CCbill has their orginal server in a display case at their office in Tempe AZ

today x 10000

http://www.prweaver.com/blog/images/...ata-center.jpg

Techie media hosts some my servers sit right next to a rack of them.

wow what a setup, would love to see what they got now.

If you only knew how ghetto it was for us during that time ... :1orglaugh

Half the time, our checks were PERSONAL checks from the owners that then got reimbursed.

The Above Net facility in San Jose had rack upon rack upon rack after a while .. I used to just sit there in awe of it. eBay wasn't far away, either.

haha dayam

This is Google's akillies heal....

http://www.corecoder.com/gfy/borgport.jpg

Uplink to that and you get direct access to the hive :eatmouse

HAHAHAHAHA :1orglaugh

that is in the museum now, i forgot which one.

google=god

That's hidtory list is sweat website. :thumbsup

shiat....that's a nice setup.

how many monitors do they have connected

About 75% of all the monitors in the world at a rough guess....

heheh why need a monitor on a server??

and damian2001 : good reply ;)

nice rack :)

It's in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

I am jealous.

Don't be, you too can be in the Computer History Museum if you play your cards right :winkwink:

jesus fucking christe:)

Google, 12 years from today:

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/t/terminators.jpg

:Oh crap

Or it could happen sooner:winkwink:

looks homemade

All of Google's shit was homemade. And even to this day they don't buy servers from the likes of Dell, IBM, etc, they put them together themselves...

Now that is scary !!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh !!

wow big change from then to now

I got one of those around here somewhere :pimp

hahaha good one

you mean terminator 12 years AGO? :1orglaugh

hehe good one...

pmsl :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

What do they do? Exterminate everyone that uses a search engine other than Google? :(

I imagine the cost of electricity is a big factor. That would seem to put pressure to locate server farms outside of California.

I luv google! It was my idea but they got there first :-)

well the google guys are brilliant.. it wasn't all luck..

i am not saying they didn't also got lucky but .. smarts has a lot to do with this huge success .
The company still makes very smart moves its amazing for such a huge company to still make such smart business moves

Any pics??? Please post :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Oh, I wouldn't like to use that now