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did you know that facebooks servers are so minimalistics?? just a motherboard, harddrives and a psu, its amazing how they manage to design it. btw they got thousands of them or more.

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    Yeah so? They could be more minimalistic with only a psu, motherboard, and memory cause of pxe boot. Only servers that really need storage are the database servers and the whole facebook codebase couldn't be more than 2 gb not including the databases
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    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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    Like mentioned, those servers just hold the codebase. The storage servers are probably several hundred terabytes, 4u and 250 pounds.
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    Was facebooks or googles servers open-source hardware?
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    @CCTrollz. Terabytes? More like Petabytes maybe?
    Linus from linus tech tips has it and his company is "small"
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    @eeeddr I meant hundred of terabytes a server.
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    Well it's obvious since they don't need a GPU so the incredible design is just using what's necessary....
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    @CCTrollz
    Oh, yeah, that makes sense 😅
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    @No-one real servers just have an integrated basic gpu, just for maintenance. Real servers runs *nix systems and are admin by console. =)
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