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Look at Go Daddy’s data centers — A fascinating

How the firm manages 52 million domains and hosts 5 million web sites.

Data Center Knowledge has an interesting story today regarding Go Daddy’s data center operations.

The most amusing part: when the firm started it was running servers at founder Bob Parsons’ ranch. It quickly outgrew that.

Here are some interesting stats from the story:

52 million domain names
10 billion DNS queries a day
Hosts 5 million web sites on 35,000 servers in its data centers
More than 23 petabytes of data
Process 350 million emails a day

There’s also a good photo gallery of the infrastructure at its main data center.

The story is worth a read.

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