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BlogWorld & New Media Expo Las Vegas 2007
“How to serve 1 million page views in 15 minutes.”
Presenters:
Joe RodriguezManager of Product Engineering
ServerBeach, A PEER 1 Company
Barry AbrahamsonSystems Wrangler
WordPress
The
Story
WordPress StatsUnique Hits - Trailing 30-Day
Total
WordPress StatsDaily Total Visits
WordPress StatsTotal Daily Views
What Does This Mean?
Challenge
• Experiencing rapid growth• Cannot afford any downtime for users• Needed a network to support large amounts of traffic• Looking for a cost effective solution
How did ServerBeach help?
Scalability: • The SB Automation system allowed WP to build a large
number of servers quickly• WP can add servers to existing configuration
seamlesslyAvailability: • SB datacenters uses multiple OC-48 uplinks that connect to
the PEER 1 network with fully redundant power and network systems
Cont’d…
Flexibility:• 100MB/sec full duplex ports connection the public internet to
allow large amounts of traffic in and out• Gig E port links on the private network, low latency and
secure net.• Configured RAID drives to allow redundancy• Provisioned 64 bit Debian Etch as an operating system
Cont’d
Affordability:• SB was a price point that was attractive to a start up
company like Automattic. Credibility:• SB / PEER 1 hosts other startups such as YouTube,
MyBlogLog, Dogster, Tailrank, Club Penguin, AdobeProfessionalism:• WordPress has a dedicated Account Manager and
receives 24/7 support
Result
• WordPress.com is adding 50K new blogs per month• WP.com currently hosts 1.75 Milllion Blogs• WP.com users experience 99.99% network uptime
Q & A
Thank you for your time today.
Please visit our blog: serverbeach.wordpress.com
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