topic How Gmail does it in General

How Gmail does it

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:05:42 GMT

Anyone know how is that Gmail can provide so much storage capacity and availability?

How can be an infraestructure like that? Fault tolerance, backup, etc.?

I really cannot imagine that.

Re: How Gmail does it

Vincent Fleming — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:01:13 GMT

I really doubt that a free email service like Gmail does backups...

I don't know what they bought, but my educated guess is a lot of entry-level or midrange arrays like MSA and/or EVA. Whatever was cheapest, is my guess.

It just doesn't make sense to use something like an XP for a free service.

Regards,

Vince

Re: How Gmail does it

Basil Vizgin — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:06:45 GMT

Look for this:
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1356

Re: How Gmail does it

Uwe Zessin — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:09:23 GMT

Thanks for the pointer.

So it's obviously a grid ;-)

Re: How Gmail does it

Vincent Fleming — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:45:45 GMT

Yeah - cool. Grid storage in practice.

I wonder how really cost-effective it is in their implementation...