Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

For comparison, there are a few webhosting companies that claim to
have as many as 26,000 servers. Google supposibly has over 100,000
servers. And those are 1 or 2 year old figures.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:43:09PM GMT, Jeff Welty [jtwelty@indiana.edu] said the following:
> There is a report that Linden Labs are using around 4000 servers now...
> if that's true, buy this person's calculations, they consume as much
> electricity as all the people in Brazil:
> http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php
> Second Life is really amazing - you can do almost anything there.
> Therefore, it's almost as good as zombo.com, where you can do literally
> anything.
> Jeff
>
>
> Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
> >Mark Krenz wrote:
> >
> >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142
> >>
> >> I mentioned during a BLUG meeting that I thought someone needs to
> >>develop and open protocol 3d distributed network. I can't believe
> >>that Linden Labs is choosing to do that. But that's great.
> >>
> >
> >There was an article in Baseline magazine a few months ago about Linden
> >Labs, talking about their infrastructure. At the time of writing, they
> >had 1800 Debian servers running their databases, a handful running their
> >Internet-facing web servers, and said they were adding an average of a
> >rack full (42) of 1U servers a week to keep up...
> >
> >
> >
>
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