Walk into the wordpress.com data center

The folks behind wordpress.com recently released some technical information about their new data center in Chicago, which focuses on layered technology mechanisms.

There are 5.5 million blogs on the wordpress.com platform, not to be confused with independent blogs that use WordPress.

Here is the server hardware information for this data center:

* HP DL165s dual quad-core AMD 2354 processors 2GB-4GB RAM, 150 units

* HP DL365s dual Dual-Core AMD 2218 processors 4GB-16GB RAM, 50 units

* HP DL185s dual quad-core AMD 2354 processors 4GB RAM, 5 units

There are 1,440 CPU cores in total, and the total memory capacity ranges from 520GB to 1.4TB. What computing power...

This is just one of three data centers at wodpress.com.