Take a peek inside Silicon Valley’s new Equinix data warehouse as CNET News.com’s Neha Tiwari speaks with SmugMug.com CEO Don MacAskill about how online photos are uploaded and shared on the Web. See the facility and learn how to tell when some clicks on a photo.
SmugMug.com uses Apple Xserve RAID units (“super reliable hardware,” MacAskell says) to store all of their users photo data. Each individual Apple Xserve RAID holds 7TB of data; Smugmug.com is currently storing over 300TB of user data on the Apple machines.
The video is 2 minutes and 4 seconds in length and shows Apple products throughout here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Marc” for the heads up.]
[UPDATE: 12:35pm EDT: Removed video sponsorship comment as per “coolfactor.”]
smugmug rocks! I love it. Nice to hear it uses Apple server technology.
Funny, SmugMug seems be well established, and yet I’ve never heard of them until today. They seem to have quite the nifty operation going there.
NOW IF Apple would make a decent, powerful, easy to us and customizable server software they would sell servers too.
This shows the problem and why Apple is not making inroads in server space (outside of the G5 processor which nobody else sold)
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=1
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whoops! Somehow i doubt it’s using any microsoft server products on those xserves, or he wouldn’t state “super dependable hardware”
And to prove my point, MDN is running on Linux.
MDN runs on Linux after running Mac OS X and FreeBSD? Shock and horror!
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Gee, I wonder what MacCentral, granddaddy of them all runs?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=maccentral.com
Linux.
What about MacMinute?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=macminute.com
FreeBSD.
MacSurfer?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=macsurfer.com
Linux, then FreeBSD.
MacNN?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=macnn.com
FreeBSD. then Linux
MDN runs on Linux after running Mac OS X and FreeBSD?
No it’s on Linux with Apache and PHP.
How do you figure a server to be running more than one OS at a time anyway?
Mac OS X server just plains sucks.
IT Tech,
Sorry, perhaps I wasn’t clear enough.
MDN used to run on Mac OS X, then FreeBSD, and now on Linux.
It’s what the sites’ web host uses that dictates the OS, not the site.
Been using SmugMug since 2003.
5837 photos and counting.
Best money I ever spent.
Hey IT Tech, maybe you should head on over to roughlydrafted to find out why the anandtech tests were complete bollocks. Then again, I’m sure you’re not really interested, as it wouldn’t gell with your world view.
I’m glad you’re not an IT Tech in our company!
MW: son. IT Tech is one ignorant son of a…
Mac OS X server just plains sucks.
…you are an idiot.
Just regular reply to idiotic baseless statements.
PS
No need to reply. You already proved you are an idiot.
NEXT!
Ok… so the video link up there showing all the Apple stuff everywhere… Had a Microthing commercial starting it…
What an amazing server! MDN used to run on Mac OS X, then FreeBSD, and now on Linux.
.Thanks for posting this informatve article here.
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Wow! I never knew that each individual Apple Xserve RAID holds 7TB of data; Smugmug is currently storing over 300TB of user data on the Apple machines! These are real big numbers. Will be back often to read more updates!
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I purchased a server for my business from smugmug last month! I got it for a good deal compared to some other retailers on eBay and other websites!
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