Question: Who hosts Google?


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Hey all, I just wanted to find out if any of you have information on the company that hosts google and how many boxes does it take to host it. I know google is a big search enginge, but I am intrested in the magnitude needed to host such a large company.

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yea,has google ever been down due to bandwith?

Seeing as its own srvers, they have no bandwidth limitation - the only limiting factor is their connection speed which i presume is within the several hundred mbit / more likely gbit range....

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There is an interesting read about google's server technology here, they don't have a "host" per se, think in the range of hundreds of thousands of servers in various co-lo sites, and when individual servers break down its not even worth the trouble of swapping them out...

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thx rezza, very cool article, but you got any clue as to how many servers host an image of google or a part of it. I.E., does it take 100 servers, 1000, more?

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You know what I heard is they use really cheap machines, similar to a machine like emachine, but they use them in huge quantities, in a farm, and when one craps out they can just replace it for cheap.

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hmm smart idea, im using their gmail service now and its awsome like the grouping features and keyboard shortcuts, still amazing how it went from 2 guys to over a 1000

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Whois report...

Registrant:
	Google Inc. (DOM-258879)
	2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US

    Domain Name: google.com

	Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
	Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
	Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

    Administrative Contact:
	DNS Admin (NIC-1340142)  Google Inc.
	2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US
	dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506181499
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
	DNS Admin (NIC-1340144)  Google Inc.
	2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US
	dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506181499

    Created on..............: 1997-Sep-15.
    Expires on..............: 2011-Sep-14.
    Record last updated on..: 2003-Apr-07 10:42:46.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS3.GOOGLE.COM  216.239.36.10
    NS4.GOOGLE.COM  216.239.38.10
    NS1.GOOGLE.COM  216.239.32.10
    NS2.GOOGLE.COM  216.239.34.10

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They don't even have cases on the machines, just mobos, ram, and HDDs. They buy the cheapest possible, and when one breaks they just put a new one in and keep going (the spider will get back to that part of the web anyway)

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