> Gigablast databases are scalable to 200 billion pages with minimal hardware. (100,000 servers)
While that's obviously a ton of pages, I've just never heard someone call 100,000 servers a minimal amount of hardware. Different points of view I suppose.
In the 'rants' ( http://www.gigablast.com/rants.html ) there is a lot of background information, he says he originally released when he had only 8 servers.
Also, there is no way he has 100,000 servers, he never took in outside capital. I think that part should be read as 'it scales to 100,000 servers), probably wildly optimistic since I highly doubt there is a gigablast implementation anywhere that has that many servers.
While that's obviously a ton of pages, I've just never heard someone call 100,000 servers a minimal amount of hardware. Different points of view I suppose.