HOW YAHOO MANAGE the space require for millions of user accounts do they add it by physically (hard drives)or they manage the free space of the existing users for a new user like if u have free space of 1 gb in urs account they use it in a logical or technical manner >><
2007-02-07 03:47:59 · 3 answers · asked by ashwani_geek 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Storage is cheap, especially physical storage (hard drives).
Further, few people use all the service they can. Most people use only a small part of what they can use. Yahoo can, for example, offer to give you a 1 GB mailbox; most people don't even use a hundredth of that.
2007-02-07 04:04:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they do "add it physically"; but rather than adding hard drives to one mega-server, they add new servers. For example, when you log into Yahoo! Mail, you get redirected to something like CC.fX.mail.yahoo.com, where CC is a two-letter country code and X is a number. Each "CC.fX" prefix corresponds to a different physical machine, so your account can reside on us.f250.mail.yahoo.com, while mine can be on us.f440.mail.yahoo.com...
Is there a limit to Yahoo!'s storage capacity? Not really, since the system operates on multiple machines and can have as many machines as necessary.
2007-02-07 12:05:22 · answer #2 · answered by NC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vitamin C.
2007-02-07 13:36:42 · answer #3 · answered by Smutty 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋