5 Servers Run WordPress.com…200 Run Akismet
Just about everything I do is on WordPress these days. I’ve run and experimented with WordPress mu, WordPress 2.x to 2.7.x. I think WordPress is the bees knees and have even written more than 3 plugins now.
Sometimes I get the itch to load up a WordPress mu installation on my shared hosting environment and put “free” in the URL and see what happens. Now that I see that WordPress.com needs THREE freaking datacenters with a shitload of servers, I’m thinking I might have to opt for the deluxe shared hosting package now.
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The people behind the WordPress.com blogging service recently shared some technical information about their new data center in Chicago, which is located in a Layered Technologies facility.
Royal Pingdom » The hardware behind the newest WordPress.com data center
For those interested in technical details here is a hardware overview of the installation:
150 HP DL165s dual quad-core AMD 2354 processors 2GB-4GB RAM
50 HP DL365s dual dual-core AMD 2218 processors 4GB-16GB RAM
5 HP DL185s dual quad-core AMD 2354 processors 4GB RAM
Our friends at Layered Technologies were kind enough to shoot this footage for us (think The Blair Witch Project) and the always awesome Michael Pick took care of the editing. Here’s a peak at what a typical WordPress data center installation looks like…
p.s. I bet they run WordPress.com on the 5 HP DL185′s and the other 200 HP DL’s are just for Akismet…. lol
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