Since this is the beginning of our blog posts, we will narrate story behind Facebook and its data centers. However, we will not go into much details regarding Facebook data center locations, which we will spare for next blog. We hope you will find this story quite amusing.
Facebook was found in early 2004 during the Harvard days of Mark Zuckerberg, the main man behind this project. However, there had been other founders along with him, who too contributed to the creation of this project called "The Facebook" which was later changed into facebook. However, there remains a lot of controversies regarding the founding of the company. The seniors from Mark Zuckerberg's college claimed that Mark has actually stole the idea from them. And in the court of law, seniors did get some percentage of shares for the settlement of the case. Which means, there has been some truth to the controversy or claim.
What actually happened is seniors were working on project similar and had hired a developer. Later, when the developer left the project halfway, they hired Mark for the completion of project. But Mark kept postponing the finishing of work, making one excuse or other and instead launched his own project with his friends, similar to the project he was assigned by his seniors. This is what created controversy and legal battle.
But whatever may be the history, it has now left far behind and what we have now is a website with over a billion of active users worldwide. The company initially purchased space from popular hosting companies like Equinix. However, now due to growing demand and data usage in their platform, they have build their own data centers to gain more control over it and also to reduce the cost. It is said that they have currently 17 data centers of their own in the world, which will be further discussed in the next blog in more details.
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