Hotmail runs over 10,000 servers world-wide processing billions of email transactions everyday. All of this is mananged by less than 100 system administrators.

Microsoft MSN’s product unit manager Phil Smoot speaks to ACM Queue about how it all works.

It’s an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of a web-based email service.

Tags: email, hotmail, microsoft, MSN, web-based email

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