I was just wondering, how is data stored in cyberspace. I mean, there's no way that a website such as myspace has the capacity to store half a billion profiles that contain photos and music on its own hard drive. There must be Billions of megabites of info that needs to be stored for the internet to work..So how DO they store all that info?
2007-02-05 17:40:32 · 7 answers · asked by Ronijn 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Servers, that's their job.
See, the World wide web is a hodgepodge of networked computers linked to each other, much more of data and information sharing, like this answers page.
Data is not just stored in a single computer only. Myspace, have their own werver and those server computrs are networked to share data. Imagine running a server of 50 server units with 300GB of storage space.
To think, 1 GB = 1,024 MB | 1MB = 1024 KB | 1KB = 1024B
300GB, that's 300 x 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024
2007-02-05 18:02:18 · answer #1 · answered by montblanc_polter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, that's just it: they don't store it on "a" hard drive.
They store it on MANY hard drives. They often have large arrays of high capacity hard drives, allowing for a huge amount of storage.
2007-02-05 17:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apache servers powered by Linux.
2007-02-05 17:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this type of storing tech is known as storage servers
where it will have no.of HDD
2007-02-05 17:53:11 · answer #4 · answered by Arunguru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good Question i dont have the answer too this one lol who knows thewy have have a 1000000000000000 Billions back up system
2007-02-05 17:44:31 · answer #5 · answered by me and you 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To the best of my knowledge, with compression algorithms.
2007-02-05 17:50:29 · answer #6 · answered by Tolga O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why technology is amazing...
2007-02-05 17:44:16 · answer #7 · answered by naz18hg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋