It’s Not A Contest

Mozilla’s external infrastructure has been running on a little more than a shoestring with some of the most heroic efforts by the sysadmins involved. After leaving AOL the Mozilla Foundation essentially had to start from scratch and be able to build an infrastructure capable of handling millions of users a day. It has taken some time but we’re getting ready to deploy the next generation of this infrastructure. The new infrastructure will be much faster, more scalable and redundant. Check out the new gear.

I read an article about Microsoft migrating to 64-bit Windows. My favorite quote was “”the entire Microsoft.com site has been migrated, and we serve 30 million unique visitors every day.” I would absolutely love to know how much gear and most importantly the total cost for doing that for them.

The Mozilla infrastructure easily sees 30 million clients a day across all of its properties and it does it with (although I am in fact just guessing this) much less gear than Microsoft does. Too bad they don’t use Linux on cheap gear. And before anybody flames me, I’m sure I’m comparing apples and oranges here people … this is just Friday morning fodder …