Take a look at the attached picture, which shows a group of PC mainboards with all the peripherals, storage drives and dangling wires. That’s the Google’s first production server, which is supposed to go to the museum. Google is now a multi-billion company, just imagine, how they actually started up the company with the server that simply made up of couple of PC mainboards, peripherals, storage drives and connected up as a server cluster.
That’s the success secret of Google, which started up as low cost as possible. The Google’s first production server simply reflected low or zero repair cost. It simply recycled some old PC mainboards together with some peripherals and storage drives, networked together to form a powerful server cluster that’d have outperformed those expensive Digital Alpha Unix servers that powered the AltaVista! Take a closer look, each group of mainboard and the hard disk and the peripherals simply forms a very low cost PC. The one on top is some kind of old network switch and those dangling network cables connect all these low-cost PCs to the network switch to form a powerful server cluster! It’s called circa 1999!
February 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
The two persons that powered up Google is simply genius. From scratch to billions!
February 27th, 2007 at 6:44 am
sure they’re
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