What data management problems have arisen? How has MySpace solved, or attempted to solve, these problems?
Some of the problems MySpace has encountered are inadequate storage space on its database servers, slow access or no access through its log-in application, and users’ inabilities to access data. Over the years, MySpace has attempted to fix these problems by adding more Web servers and more database servers. Some were simply “added on” without restructuring the entire system to more efficiently use its hardware and software. Workloads were not distributed evenly between servers which caused inefficient use of resources. MySpace developers continue to redesign the Web site’s database, software, and storage systems, to keep pace with its exploding growth, but their job is never done.