What Did facebook use? or myspace?

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mpsnedag

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I'm just wondering. Does anyone know what kind of developer software myspace or facebook used, in order to create this? I need to know as soon as possible. A speedy responce would be quite appreciated. And detail. Thank you very much.

Mpsnedag
 
haha, he's going to make his own social networking site in hopes that millions of people will use it.

j/k, it would be cool to make one for family and friends though.
 
yeah i was going to say myspace has likes millions of dollars in equipment... they have 20TB of storage alone
 
Well, face book uses PHP, as can be seen from the trailing extensions, however, there is likely to be hidden scripting too.

Perl cannot effectively use databases, and only uses falt file systems, so can be too slow when hit by many users.

Facebook also has several different servers running different parts of the system as can be seen by the sub-domains when you click links - for example, www.login.facebook.com etc etc. Having different servers do different tasks obviously lifts the bandwith restrictions hugely, and allows many more concurrent users to be using facebook.

Amazing site really when you look at the amount of people on it, and the amount of investment and time put into it. Extremely well thought out and run site, just a shame there is often buggy links, and time out errors.
 
Man, if you have such big dreams that you will compete with myspace or facebook, forget it... Remember how did they start? Creating something new, that didn't exist before. It was first like a college's website, than expanded to more schools because of who was in that college told others, and it expanded more and more until it became an international website. Also, they have profits to get that expensive equipment, else it wouldn't be possible.

I know this from a documentary on National Geographic (or Discovery, not very sure) called Download: The true story of the internet (it's in 3 or 5 parts don't know very sure) . It's pretty interesting for who wants to find out how the Internet appeared and developed.
 
OP, why are you asking? I'm just curious because that's such an obscure question to be asking.

Also, there will probably be high levels of coding involved in something as big as myspace or facebook. Millions of lines of code. I have no idea which language they are using though but bet on it being long :)
 
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