How EBay manages its storage and system scaling
There is a sweet article on eweek about how EBay deals with its storage issues and a glimpse into how their systems scale.
It gives some interesting stats on the usage:
- The site averages more than 1 billion page views per day.
- Users trade about $1,700 worth of goods on the site every second.
- A vehicle sells every minute.
- A motor part or accessory sells every second.
- Diamond jewelry sells every 2 minutes.
- The site currently has about 600 million listings and about 204 million registered users.
- 1.3 million people make all or part of their living selling on eBay.
WOW. Some other neat facts:
- They’ve been charted to have 99.94% uptime
- They utilize 2 PETABYTES of raw data daily
- They add about 10 TERABYTES per week of storage
- Have 170 Win2000/Win2003 servers
- Have 170 Linux (RHES3) servers
- Use 3 Solaris machines
- Use Sun E10000 for their database back-end servers
They also go in a bit about who they use for indexing, load-balancing and a bit on their application server and custom software. Interesting stuff, check out the full article: Web 2.0: How High-Volume eBay Manages Its Storage
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Posted on November 1, 2006
Filed Under Analytics, Business, Daily Thoughts, Hardware, Hosting, Marketing, Productivity, SEO, Tech, Web
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