Where the data are stored of website

Dipa Ahuja

16y6.9k.NET

hello friends..

websites like gmail, orkut, facebook, yahoomail etc stores our emails, photos, files, etc informations..

how n where they store these data?? in my viva exam this question was asked me.. so i wanted to know this..

thank you!

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Shashank Birthare16y ago
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The information on the Internet is stored on the hard drives of web servers all over the world. Web servers are, at heart, ordinary computers just like yours. They just happen to run web server software. That software allows them to speak the HTTP protocol. In English, that means that the software listens for requests from web browsers (the software you're using to read this page right now!) and answers back with web pages
, images, and other data.
The World Wide Web never "runs out of space" because webmasters (people who have websites) are generally willing to pay for a website. And that means that people in the web "hosting" business have the cash to pay for more web servers
if they need them.
In practice, web servers usually aren't exactly like your computer. For business reasons, they are usually built to fit into racks in "data centers" that have very fast connections to the rest of the Internet. This way, web "hosting" companies can achieve economies of scale by hosting many websites in one facility.
But there is no fundamental difference between your computer and a server in a rack at a web hosting facility. In fact, it is possible to run a website on your own computer at home, although that is usually not practical for serious websites.

Shashank Birthare
Abhimanyu K Vatsa16y ago
hi....

Shashank is right....

I am using a image here which will clarify your most of questions.

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It is very simple that
(i) Websites are stored on webserver
(ii) Emails are stored on mailserver
(iii) Databases are stored on database server (database servers never be a same i mean for sqlserver, mysql always be different, they can also be on different reasons and connected to each other)
(iv) Domain name server (which has dns name space control)
(v) Backup server

If any hosting company is providing you the hosting service they they should have above all servers separately. All the servers are finally connected to WebSevers. If you are asking that how they specify the the spaces that some of customers has paying for 100MB webserver space, some of for 11GB. Think how they manage the server space for all. Now I am telling you they manage it from ControlPanel.

Webserver or DatabaseServer has no space difinition system for customers.....remember all the space queries are managed from ControlPanel.

I hope my little post will help you. Right?

thanks
Dipa Ahuja16y ago
i have created one social networking site... n for photos i gave its path in the database.. n those photos are stored in the folder..

so in such large sites how all this data are stored in folder or where?

and i see the youtube.com in that when i see videos the image url is like:

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/7cjmntDj7iY/default.jpg

but when we click on that video its opened in the youtube itself..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cjmntDj7iY&feature=related
Dipa Ahuja16y ago
thank you..

these data are stored in databases.. but how? i mean the files like video, photos, etc.. how they stored..?

and suppose the size of data will increase they how they manage it?
becoz at a time so many users are uploading their data ..

how this is done?
Mahesh Chand16y ago
Data is stored on their servers in databases (usually Oracle, MySql, or SQL Server). These companies have hundreds (if not thousands) of servers.