Meet our (beautiful) servers

Sep 26, 02:34 pm PST

Our server cluster (which lives in “sunny” san francisco) is a friendly gaggle of celeron, pentium, and Xeon machines. The servers are all named after Bollywood actresses (Bollywood refers to the Indian movie industry with its center at Mumbai). At the bottom of each page on SlideShare, you can see the name of the web server that is responding to your request!

Ash is a Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM, and is used as a web server. She won Miss World in 1994, and is often referred to as the “Queen of Bollywood”.

Celina is a Celeron machine with 2 Gigs of RAM that also is our second web server. She was born in Kabul but raised in Calcutta, and was crowned Miss India in 2001.

Bipasha is another Celeron with 2 Gigs of RAM, responsible for all file conversions and processing. She is considered one of Bollywood’s most controvertial actresses.

Dia is a Xeon with 4 Gigs of RAM and RAID 1. She runs the database, and most recently starred in the Indian adaptation of the film “Fight Club”.

We haven’t found the need for a fifth machine, but there’s only one bollywood actress I know of whose name begins with E, so it will probably be named Esha!

Posted by jon Posted in Technical Trivia

5 Responses to “Meet our (beautiful) servers”

  1. amit ranjan » Ash, Bipasha, Celina, Dia….who’s next says:
    Oct 5, 2:19 am

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  2. the slideshare blog » Blog Archive » The SlideShare cluster just got more beautiful! says:
    Oct 23, 7:57 am

    […] You might be aware from this earlier post, that our movie crazed engineers have named the Slideshare servers after Bollywood (Indian film industry) film actresses. I take this opportunity to welcome three more beauties to the cluster. They are being added to our backend, as we open SlideShare to users from today. Meet the beauties here - […]

  3. BradleyWinters says:
    Apr 1, 6:09 pm

    Nice. I absolutely agree with you.
    Keep up the nice work. I’ll be back for more!

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    Apr 6, 3:09 am

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