A Tour Inside CloudFlare’s Latest Generation Servers
July 23rd, 2013This is off topic, but possibly interesting for anyone who wants to see what balls-to-the-wall looks like in the realm of custom server hardware.
In short, huge RAM cache and SSDs—lots of SSDs.
Via: CloudFlare:
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month. To ensure this is as efficient as possible, we own and operate all the equipment in our 23 locations around the world in order to process the volume of traffic that flows through our network. We spend a significant amount of time specing and, in some cases, designing the hardware that makes up our network. At the edge of CloudFlare’s network we run three main components: routers, switches, and servers. On regular intervals, we will take everything we’ve learned about a last generation of hardware and refresh each component with a next generation.
