Behind the Hotmail Screen
Saturday, January 14th, 2006One of the first, and now one of the biggest, web based email providers is Hotmail. These days just about every man and his dog has a Hotmail account but have you ever wondered what is going on behind the Hotmail screen as you access your Hotmail account?
When a user logs into their Hotmail account they are actually taken to one of more than 10,000 servers spread around the globe. To manage that huge number of computers Hotmail employs less than 100 systems administrators to keep the system running.
If you are interested in finding out how it all works here is a link to an interesting interview with one of the senior Hotmail managers.