I know this has to be the age old question since the dawn of time – “How many servers does it take to run Facebook” I mean seriously how does a single site with more than 400,000,000 users maintain the massive amounts of information it generates each day? How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the company began using in April 2008. Facebook has continued to use that number, even as it has soared past 300 million users and dramatically expanded its data center space.

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