Originally Posted by papill0n

some crazy facts

* Facebook serves 570 billion page views per month (according to Google Ad Planner).

* There are more photos on Facebook than all other photo sites combined (including sites like Flickr).

* More than 3 billion photos are uploaded every month.

* Facebook?s systems serve 1.2 million photos per second. This doesn?t include the images served by Facebook?s CDN.

* More than 25 billion pieces of content (status updates, comments, etc) are shared every month.

* Facebook has more than 30,000 servers (and this number is from last year!)


from a good article on what drives facebook