MySpace Tech Roster

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.

APPLICATIONPRODUCTSUPPLIER
Web application technology Microsoft Internet Information Services, .NET FrameworkMicrosoft
Server operating system Windows 2003Microsoft
Programming language and environmentApplications written in C# for ASP.NETMicrosoft
Programming language and environmentSite originally launched on Adobe’s ColdFusion; remaining ColdFusion code runs under New Atlanta’s BlueDragon.NET product.Adobe, New Atlanta
DatabaseSQL Server 2005Microsoft
Storage area network 3PAR Utility Storage3PARdata
Internet application accelerationNetScalerCitrix Systems
Server hardware Standardized on HP 585 (see below)Hewlett-Packard
Ad server softwareDART EnterpriseDoubleClick
Search and keyword advertising Google searchGoogle

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