That is awesome, I wonder how much all of that hardware cost?

Thanks for this good article. It fascinated me. I've never imagine that Wordpress team had such a enormous amount of servers to handle their website. They are too strong and off course, every expensive right ;)

"Why HP? Wouldn’t a more generic set of boxes be more cheaper but just as reliable?" When buying that much equipment, it is usually cheaper to go with a larger brand, in this case, HP. It all depends on how much equipment you buy per year, and what your price structure is with said vendor.

How much SQL Server hardware is enough? And do you prefer AMD or Intel CPUs powering for their new data center? Cheers

Thanks for the good information. I like wordpress.

I have a quad proc running gentoo. The speed is insane.

Why are they not on Amazon's EC2 or S3 or something like that?

Which set of machines are used for what? Would you be willing to share your architecture?

Why HP? Wouldn't a more generic set of boxes be more cheaper but just as reliable?

Wow, thats great!

thanks very good :)