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By David F. Carr
2007-01-16

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A mix of time-proven and leading-edge information technologies enables MySpace to support 140 million accounts and more than 38 billion page views a month.

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

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