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Servers owned by top web companies

Mark — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:50:48 +0000

Web companies as generally presumed to have no overhead costs. You might have heard it many times buy a simple hosting, put your website up and start counting the money. This is not really true. Setting up web company is quite easy but running it and making it profitable is quite tough. One common ingredient is required for making a web company successful i.e. Traffic and when the traffic increases, quality and quantity of servers must increase to support the traffic increase. A major amount of monthly bills goes into server maintenance and management and hosting.

Did you ever wonder how many server big corporations must be having for handling their web applications:- Read on to know

Google: The search engine giant’s server count has long been estimated at 450,000 servers, but that number is at least three years old.

Microsoft: There’s actually some numbers on Microsoft’s server count, but it’s also out dated. Some sources suggest that Microsoft was running about 218,000 servers in mid-2008.

eBay: With more than 160 million active users between its online auction house and PayPal payment service, and 443 million users on Skype, eBay has a massive data center infrastructure. Figures are not accurate but the company must be running at least 50000 servers.

Yahoo: Yahoo has got another huge infrastructure with some sources suggest that yahoo has at least 250,000 servers across various data centers but this figure is also outdated.

GoDaddy: It’s the world’s largest domain registrar with more than 35 million domains under management. It’s infrastructure is probably similar in scope to that of any other decent web company. Server count is assumed to be around in the range of 55,000 servers.

HP: Sources suggest that HP is managing 380,000 servers in 180 data centers.

Facebook: Facebook says only that it has more than 10,000 servers, but it’s been saying that since April 2008 and it’s now serving 200 million users and hosting at least 40 billion photos. Facebook is clearly way beyond 10,000 servers, and it’s entirely possible that it’s now in the 50,000 server club.

If we check the cost of any entry level India dedicated server from one of the best and most affordable web hosting company, we see that the cost of any entry level server will generally cost $99 per month. So, according to our stats Facebook server costs per month must be at least USD 5 million per month. Hope you get a glimpse of the huge cost involved in running a successful internet business.

Significance of Diwali

Mark — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:37:29 +0000

India is a country that is culturally so rich that it celebrates one or the other festival almost every month. And most of these festivals have their origin in Indian Mythology and there is very interesting stories about them. It is the spiritual and religious richness in India that each festival is related to some or other deity. One of such festivals is the ‘festival of lights’, Deepawali. Deepawali is the Indian festival that brings a series of festivals with it. One after another it gives a chance to celebrate five festivals together.

Return of Shri Ram Chandra to Ayodhyaa

The most famous legend behind the celebrations of diwali is about the prince of Ayodhya Nagri, Lord Shri Ram Chandra. The story goes like the king of Lanka, Ravan kidnapped Ram Chandra’s wife, Sita from the jungle where they were staying as per the instructions of King Dashratha, father of Ram Chandra. Then Ram Chandra attacked Lanka and killed Ravan and released Sita from imprisonment. He returned to Ayodhyaa with his wife Sita and younger brother Lakshamana after fourteen years. Therefore the people of Ayodhyaa decorated their homes as well as the city of Ayodhyaa by lighting tiny diyas all over in order to welcome their beloved prince Shri Ram Chandra and Devi Sita.

Incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi

On the auspicious new moon day, which is ‘Amavasyaa’ of the Hindi month of Kartik the Goddess of wealth and prosperity, Lakshmi was incarnated. She appeared during the churning of the ocean, which is known as ‘Samudra Manthan’, by the demons on one side and ‘Devataas’ on the other side. Therefore the worship of Goddess Lakshmi, the Lakshmi Pujan, on the day of Divali became a tradition.

Lord Krishna Destroyed Demon Narakasur

One famous story behind the celebrations of Diwali is about the demon king Narakasur who was ruler of Pragjyotishpur, a province to the South of Nepal. During a war he defeated Lord Indra and snatched away the magnificent earrings of Mother Goddess Aditi who was not only the ruler of Suraloka but also a relative of Lord Krishna’s wife, Satyabhama. Narakasur also imprisoned sixteen thousand daughters of Gods and saints in his harem. With the support of Lord Krishna Satyabhama defeated Narakasur and released all the women from his harem and also restored the magnificent earrings of Mother Goddess Aditi.

The Return of the Pandavas

The great Hindu epic ‘Mahabharata’ has another interesting story related to the ‘Kartik Amavasyaa’. The story reads that ‘the Pandavas’, the five brothers Yudhishthhira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahdeva, were sentenced thirteen years banishment as a result of their defeat against ‘the Kauravas’, Duryodhana and his ninety nine brothers, at the game of dice. Therefore they spent thirteen years in the jungles and returned to their kingdom on the day of ‘Kartik Amavasyaa’. On their return the people of their kingdom welcomed the Pandavas by celebrating the event by lighting the earthen lamps all over in their city.

Have a Happy Deepawali..

Top Software Companies Which Changed the world

Mark — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:58:03 +0000

Suppose i take your computer away, how would you feel? Suppose i delete your windows xp operating system, how would you feel? Suppose i delete games from your computer, how would you feel? No doubt this is an information age, and without computers nothing can be thought ahead. It is software’s which changed the whole world. There are many software companies responsible for the growth and development where we are now. But some of the companies are there which changed the way we lived. There are companies which we will never be able to forget. The top software companies responsible for phenomenal growth in earth’s computing technology are:

Microsoft : Microsoft is the biggest company of the world having made software’s like windows operating system, Microsoft office, and other games. They are into Infrastructure Software, Office Productivity Software, Gaming Software, Databases, Operating systems, Middleware, Office software, PC Games. The company is the biggest company in the world with a minimum revenue of $61900 million.

IBM : IBM, another giant in the world of computers. First personal computer was the gift of IBM, Stands fro International Business machines, makes enterprise software and virtually everything related to computers. Some of the softwares by IBM you might have heard are Tivoli, DB2, websphere, Informix and many. The turnover of IBM is minimum $ 103,630 millions. Cool! isn’t it?

Nintendo : Fist ever computer games was the gift of nintendo. Entertainment industry was totally shaken by nintendo. People are still crazy about nintendo wii and other gaming consoles. Our lives would have been totally boring, if there were no games. Although in the gaming indutry, the company revenue is the range of minimum $19886 millions.

HP : How can you forget HP when it comes to computers. Imagine a world without printers, scanners, laptops and then you will realize the importance of HP. Although there are many companies better than HP now , but HP was once a leader in the field of manufacture of input and output devices. The revenue of HP is in the range of $ 117,837 million per year.

Adobe : Adobe, My favorite company. I love this company because they really create innovative products. Without adobe, web and internet world would be dead. They have given us PDf, SWF and some of the software you already know are Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, illustrator and many others. Great company indeed. The revenue of the company is in the range of $ 3544 million per year.

The above company has great role in the development of the world where we stand today. All the best to them!