How much bandwidth do you think Google uses a day?

It must be quite a lot. Do you reckon they are on a dedicated server?

 

no, i'm reckoning they're on about 2000

 

I said around 10^40, it might be 10^46 or so.

What i mean in our universe and our technology thats what i tought was the largest quantity to measure things.. I mean that is an insane number...

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 - 10^40

 

Knowing full well they use an enormous amount of bandwidth, I wonder how much they actually pay per GB. I remember a few months ago hearing about Google going on a dark fibre buying spree .. I'm sure they're managing to keep bandwidth costs to a serious minimum!

 

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.... I'd be interested in hearing where you got the idea of 10^40 from though.

 

really not sure, but it must be a lot

 

They seem to have adsl because their pages load quite fast and I'm using windows by the way.

 

I was guessing it took about 1.21 JigaBytes of bandwidth a day to make their flux capacitor work right.

 

Probably, a company of that size. Seems right they would have that.

 

I have the impression their connections are a mite faster than ADSL. But you did make me smile.

 

this was the $500 000 dollar question on Who Wnats to be a millionaire i saw before.

 

1 post from 1,000 spend it wisely

By the time you read this you will probly be at 1,005

 

Google is powered by 1.5 million servers. Assuming each server consumers 1000 gigs a month, you would have 1,500,000,000 gigs per month or 50 million gigs per day.

Well, that's my guess. The only thing I know that is true is they have 1.5 million servers.

 

That sounds reasonable.

 

There was something in the UW video. Jeff Dean says how many gigabytes they process, something like 200 gigabytes a second, I cannot remember. So if anyone wants to look for it. . . .

 

It would have to be some incredible number. Heck they are probably their own isp. Unlimited access directly into the backbone and many many spots.

Just the sheer number of sites they crawl everyday would make most hosts cringe.

Brad

 

My guess... 10^them... Well it's really very hard to predict... they may be having anything from 10 terabytes to 100000 terabytes...

There own servers as mentioned by Brad...

That's why they are called BIG G...

Manish

 

I'd be interested in hearing what your source is for that info. What I have heard places the number of servers right around 100,000.

 

As much global traffic that is generated by people using Google to search and Google crawling sites....they probably have very loose arraingments in place with leading backhaul providers.....BUT...some providers might be tired of giving Google a freee ride:

http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/02/verizon_were_en.html

 

Last year there were speculations that it was up near 100000 servers.

I seem to remember watching something on TV a few years back saying that every computer that is used in the company is used also. I guess a bit like that SETI project... where it uses remaining processing power.