{"id":318,"date":"2008-05-12T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-12-19T23:34:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:34:57","slug":"100-million-on-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"100 million on servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmwatson.com\">Paul Watson<\/a> about the reg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/05\/12\/facebook_cto_off\/\">article<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> CTO taking an extended holiday. Obviously I wish Adam D&#8217;Angelo well and he&#8217;s done a really cool thing but&#8230; 100 million dollars on servers?? WFT???<br \/>\nHave they heard of utility computing? Storage and computational outsourcing deals? These are really useful when you want to variabilise a business cost which is usage dependent. Especially, if you&#8217;re actually making money from your customers. Not for the first time I can&#8217;t see where FB are going with this but if all these servers are required for their FB Connect service I hope they have a business model to justify this beyond <em>&#8220;get bought&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking to Paul Watson about the reg&#8217;s article on the Facebook CTO taking an extended holiday. Obviously I wish Adam D&#8217;Angelo well and he&#8217;s done a really cool thing but&#8230; 100 million dollars on servers?? WFT??? Have they heard of utility computing? Storage and computational outsourcing deals? These are really useful when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}