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How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been "more than 10,000 servers," a number the company began using in April 2008. Facebook has continued to use that number, even as it has soared past 300 million users and dramatically expanded its data center space. We now have an update: Facebook has 30,000 servers supporting its operations. That number comes from Jeff

Does the Sidekick data loss reflect on the reliability of cloud computing? Or is the cloud being scapegoated for a different kind of problem? Pundits are split on the cloud's culpability. There's a been a trend recently in which every outage of a web-enabled service is interpreted by the tech media as a reflection of the reliability (or lack thereof) of cloud computing. This in turn has prompted d

Does web hosting knit together neatly with news, search and advertising sales in a business plan for an Internet portal? That's a question that has come up frequently in recent years as Yahoo has gone through several phases of redefinition, prompting speculation that the company would eventually divest its large web hosting operation. It looks like "eventually" has arrived. Reuters reports that Ya

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