PerfectReign wrote:
I know this is way OT, but y'all might find it interesting.
I was reading a few months back how Amazon distributes all their systems. When you go to amazon's homepage, you are actually seeing the result of several dozen different systems coming together.
IIRC, they use any given OS (Linux, Unix, Wintendo) on any number of low-end whitebox systems distributed throught the country to generate data. They have well over 100,000 of these systems grouped together in different data centers. Each system is replicated x times depending on need to ensure reliable access.
On any given day, they say up to 50 systems will fail. However, because of the massive redundancy, there's no effect on the users. They simply rip out the old system, put in a new one, run some sort of Ghost application, and the new system is on the network.
I think you are talking about Google, not Amazon. (^-^)
Sandy Have you already heard of the Internet achieve? There are 3 world wide
Sandy Drobic wrote: centers with 1000s of computers each which exchange data permanently. bye Ronald