Rack Server Market Analysis Web server requirements

January 17, 2008 13 O'Clock 45 News, China Internet http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/32420.html > Network Information Center (CNNIC) released today The 21st report on China's Internet development Statistics shows that the number of websites in China has reached 1.5 million, up 660,000 from the same period last year, with a growth rate of 78.4%. Blog/personal space and many other network application needs, the growth of the number of domain names to pull and create a simple Web site operations such as the simplification of factors, together to make the number of websites soar.

The increase of the number of websites, the burden of the Internet began to increase, the physical equipment hosting the site-the demand of the server is more and more high, the site needs the server to be hosted to the service room, in order to better save space, smaller rack-type server more suitable for the needs of the site.

The requirements of the Web site for the server mainly show the following three aspects:

1, the growth of blog/personal space to promote the blog services to provide a Web site upgrade server group.

According to Cnnic's statistics, the number of Chinese bloggers in 2007 reached 46.982 million, with 72.822 million blogs. Users can blog posts, upload pictures, and so on, if per blog occupy 50M space calculation, the total need for these blogs about 3640TB server capacity, and so many of the blog to the requirements of the server also have higher requirements. The number of blogs that each server can host is limited, each additional blog will let the server saturated some, when the number of large to the limit will need to add additional servers to carry more blog number, 72.82 million of the number of servers required by the server is very large, as the number of increasing, the need for the server will be more.

The major portals and dedicated blog sites that currently provide blog services have large scale the server in the procurement of the overall requirements of the server is also much higher, and the size of the server is not high, but the general will purchase rack-type servers, although the expansion of the tower server is relatively good, but for the site, Rack-Type server more advantages, and the major sites in the selection of servers will generally choose the bulk purchase brand server.