MySpace has managed to scale its Web site infrastructure to meet booming demand by using a mix of time-proven and leading-edge information technologies.
| APPLICATION |
PRODUCT |
SUPPLIER |
| Web application technology |
Microsoft Internet Information Services, .NET Framework |
Microsoft |
| Server operating system |
Windows 2003 |
Microsoft |
| Programming language and environment |
Applications written in C# for ASP.NET |
Microsoft |
| Programming language and environment |
Site originally launched on Adobe's ColdFusion; remaining ColdFusion code runs under New Atlanta's BlueDragon.NET product. |
Adobe, New Atlanta |
| Database |
SQL Server 2005 |
Microsoft |
| Storage area network |
3PAR Utility Storage |
3PARdata |
| Internet application acceleration |
NetScaler |
Citrix Systems |
| Server hardware |
Standardized on HP 585 (see below) |
Hewlett-Packard |
| Ad server software
|
DART Enterprise |
DoubleClick |
| Search and keyword advertising |
Google search |
Google |
|
Standard database server configuration consists of Hewlett-Packard HP 585 servers with 4 AMD Opteron dual-core, 64-bit processors with 64 gigabytes of memory (recently upgraded from 32). The operating system is Windows 2003, Service Pack 1; the database software is Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 1. There's a 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet network card, plus two host bus adapters for storage area network communications.
The infrastructure for the core user profiles application includes 65
of these database servers with a total capacity of more than 2 terabytes
of memory, 520 processors and 130 gigabytes of network throughput.
Source: MySpace.com user conference presentations
Projects: Networks/Storage 
