With the ever increasing number of people signing up for twitter it had become absolutely for the site to have its own data centers. The micro-blogging site feels that running its own data centers will enable it to deal with the growth of the website more easily.
Also the twitters data centers will be an answer to its reliability problems. As per the reports the data centers are to come up in the salt city but no official word is out as yet from the site. The decision was announced by the site on its engineering blog. However speculations within data center circles in Utah point towards a Bluff dale location that formerly housed computer operations for several companies.
On the blog page an engineer with twitter Jean Paul wrote “Keeping pace with these users and their Twitter activity presents some unique and complex engineering challenges. Having dedicated data centers will give us more capacity to accommodate this growth in users and activity on Twitter. Having our own data center will give us the flexibility to more quickly make adjustments as our infrastructure needs change”.
The data center will soon have the company of many more data centre along with it to keep the workings at twitter smooth. The site plans to bring additional data centers that will be completely build over the time span of two years.
C7 Data Centers will be partnering twitter in setting up the data centers. And as per the local partner of twitter for this project it’s been asked not to make any information about the centers public. Utah has seen the inclinations of many big companies to have their data centers there. The growth of big data centers has been fueled by the relatively low cost of electricity, the high capacity of the state’s fiber-optic data system and a friendly business environment. Before twitter, Utah and its suburbs have seen the presence of many big company’s data centers. Internet auction site eBay Inc. announced in 2008 it will build a data center in Draper, Oracle Corp. is building a $300 million data center in West Jordan and The National Security Agency is planning Utah’s largest data center.
Twitter is growing at enormous speed, adding about 300,000 accounts per day as per the site’s statement in its blog. It now services about 100 million users worldwide. The San Francisco-based company formed in 2006 enables people to send out 140-character messages to a network of subscribers