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by stopdropnhotpot 1319 days ago
I imagine Facebook uses highly monitored virts that are spawned and destroyed constantly. I really wouldn't call them "servers" more like instances or staging hosts for containers. Root exploits aren't so serious in a ethereal state..
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They use lots of different things for lots of different things I would assume.

Also most people today use virtualization.