Who Owns The Most Web Hosting Servers ?
Has it ever crossed your mind or your curiosity that who might have the most web-hosting servers? Many people got into examining the same when it was reported that Rackspace has around 50,000 servers. |
Here is a list of companies that are known to have large numbers of web hosting servers. The figures have been raised by public reports and also partially by Netcraft server count, which is a survey that took place recently. The figures and statistics have been updated in November 2010 and it reflects the acquisition by SoftLayers on The Planet and the rapid growth of Aakamai, whose number of servers went up from 48,000 to 73,000 in just 18 months!
- Intel – 100,000 servers (declared by company as on February 2010)
- OVH – 80,000 servers (declared by company as on November 2010)
- SoftLayer – 76,000 servers (declared by company as on November 2010)
- Akamai Technologies – 73,000 servers (declared by company as on November 2010)
- 1 & 1 Internet – 70,000 servers (declared by company as on February 2010)
- Facebook – 60,000 servers (estimated figure as on October 2009)
- Rackspace – 63,996 servers (declared by company as on November 2010)
- SBC Communications – 29,193 servers (by Netcraft)
- Verizon – 25,788 servers (by Netcraft)
- Time Warner Cable – 24,817 servers (by Netcraft)
- AT&T – 20,268 servers (Netcraft)
- iWeb – 14,00 servers (declared by company)
- Peer1/ ServerBeach – 10,277 servers (declared by company)
Besides these, there are many companies, which have 50,000 servers at least but, do not let the information out. Here are a few of them:
- Google – 3 years ago, the number of servers estimated was 450,000
- Microsoft – As on mid-2008, they had 218,000 servers.
- Amazon – Randy Bias’ estimate as in 2008 says that Amazon has 40,000 servers for running its web services – EC2.
More Articles :
|
