Who Has the Most Web Servers?

An interesting post on DataCenterKnowledge!

• 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers
• Rackspace: 50,038 servers
• The Planet: 48,500 servers
• Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers
• OVH: 40,000 servers
• SBC Communications: 29,193 servers
• Verizon: 25,788 servers
• Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers
• SoftLayer: 21,000 servers
• AT&T: 20,268 servers
• iWeb: 10,000 servers
• How about Google, Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, GoDaddy, Facebook? Check out the post on DataCenterKnowledge and of course here on highscalability.com!

Comments

[Joannes Vermorel]

OVH.com - a French hosting company has more than 40k servers, see http://www.ovh.com/fr/apropos/ I would suspect they have now more, because the page has stayed unchanged for several years now.

[Matt Passell]

I don't know about web servers specifically, but I heard a rough figure for Google of around 1 million servers overall. Crazy!

--Matt

[Anonymous]

Word on the street is that Facebook has about 18,000 servers.

Google used 50,000 for GMail a couple years ago.

[Matt Passell]

I recently heard a figure of 1 million for Google (for servers overall, not just webservers), but I have no idea if it’s accurate.

--Matt

[Anonymous]

As you can see, the english website says 55k web servers: http://www.ovh.co.uk/aboutus/

[John Allspaw]

I think it would be much more interesting to know how what large-traffic sites are doing with the *fewest* webservers. :)

Being able to serve dynamic sites with a smaller footprint would give even more bragging rights, IMHO.

-j