Things you did not know about eBay

1. eBay maintains four copies of most of its databases.

2. It takes 30 minutes to build the ebay.com site - in the last 2.5 years, there have been 2 million builds.

3. On an average, eBay.com runs into issues for about 50 seconds per day.

4. The site averages more than 1 billion page views per day.

5. Users trade about $1,700 worth of goods on the site every second.

6. The site currently has about 600 million listings and about 204 million registered users.

7. The world's time zones provide a kind of natural load-balancer. When there's surge in traffic from US, that's generally when Europe [the second-largest region using eBay] is asleep - and vice versa.

8. eBay engineers have to add about 10 terabytes of new storage every week to cover new transactions.


Source: eweek.com
Thanks: Digital Inspirations