Video Details:

MySpace.com is running with Microsoft SQL Server as their Backend. This is probably one of the largest SQL Server Implementation World Wide. Find out how they were able to accomodate rapid growth in user count and also Lessons learned about SQL Server growth, capacity management and much more. Find out what's worked, what hasn't in their rapidly expanding SQL Server farm.





Source: SSWUG - SQL Connections
Presenter: Jim Benedetto, VP - Information Technology, Myspace.com (jb@myspace.com)
Technical Details about MySpace.com as on Nov 2006(Video Shooted)
130 million users
50 million Unique Users
5 Billion Ads Per days
260 new users/day
3 billion total images
3 million images added daily
3.4 million concurrent users at peak
5 Datacenters
5,000 Web Servers
160 Cache Servers 16gb RAM
650 Ad Servers
150 Database Servers
6,000 Disk in SAN Architecture
45,000 mb/s bandwidth
50,000 mb/s on CDN

Server Specifications of MySpace.com: (As fof De 2007)
Server Brand: Hewlett-Packard (HP) 585 servers
Processors/CPUs: 4 AMD Opteron dual-core, 64-bit processors
Memory: 64 Gigabytes of memory (recently upgraded from 32)
Operating System (OS): Windows 2003, Service Pack 1
Database software (DBMS): Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Service Pack (64-bit)
Network Communication: 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet network card
SAN Communication: 2 host bus adapters for storage area network (SAN) communications.
The infrastructure for the core user profiles application includes 65 of these database servers with a total capacity of more than 2 terabytes of memory, 520 processors and 130 gigabytes of network throughput.

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