Birth of a Web farm. The next step was for us to find enough hardware to perform a meaningful test. Through the good offices of Clive Swanepoel, president of ZebraHost, we got a week’s access to ...

Yup, a web server farm made from three of everyone’s favorite WiFi dongle, the humble ESP8266. Eldon’s server farm is currently serving web pages here, running on three ESP8266 boards.

F5 Networks Inc.'s Big-IP HA controller load balancer makes Web farms of heterogeneous commodity servers a viable alternative to expensive big-iron servers and hard-to-manage clusters.

Interesting feature in the March issue of Harper's if you missed it: Google's server farms use a heckuva lot of energy. A planned server farm in The Dalles, Ore. will probably use 103 megawatts of ...