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Paypal runs on 80 THOUSAND servers? And it takes hours for me to even get a quarterly transaction log prepared for download? That just boggles the mind....

• ditoa 14y ago
  Is that 80,000 physical or virtual servers though? That ratio could easily be 10:1 if it is the VM count which is more what I would be expecting.
  • bluedino 14y ago
    The article says 10,000 servers, so maybe there's an 8:1 ratio
    • ditoa 14y ago
      Unless I read it wrong the article says 10,000 servers going live this summer with the plan being to replace all 80,000 servers in total. edit: just noticed they sneak "and eBay" into the 80,000 total server count. Makes a little more sense now :)
      • enigmo 14y ago
        eBay doesn't have anything close to 80,000 servers.
• smackfu 14y ago
  I doubt they are optimizing for performance of reporting.
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