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PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Re: PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Post by rfolstad »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #6
citricsquid wrote: post #3

"POF has one single employee: the founder and CEO Markus Frind. Makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day. 30+ Million Hits a Day (500 - 600 pages per second)." I find this more interesting than the parent article; although it seems clear hiring more people helped them expand (and handle that expansion) a lot, a single employee/founder doing that much is crazy impressive. From: http://…

Does POF still have one employee?

Nope we've got a handful now and we're hiring! http://www.pof.com/careers

Re: PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Post by citricsquid »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #6
citricsquid wrote: post #3

"POF has one single employee: the founder and CEO Markus Frind. Makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day. 30+ Million Hits a Day (500 - 600 pages per second)." I find this more interesting than the parent article; although it seems clear hiring more people helped them expand (and handle that expansion) a lot, a single employee/founder doing that much is crazy impressive. From: http://…

Does POF still have one employee?

No, they have a jobs page (http://www.pof.com/careers/) and it lists director of technology. Another user posted above an inc article saying that he had 4 employees in 2009 and planned for 30, so maybe he has 30 now!

Re: PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Post by jedberg »

I'm not sure I believe this and here is why:

At one point Highscalability covered the reddit architecture, but he didn't actually talk to anyone at reddit about it, and got a lot of it wrong.

I tried to contact him and get it fixed, but he never responded to me.

So I have to wonder where these numbers are coming from.

Re: PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Post by citricsquid »

jedberg wrote: post #15

I'm not sure I believe this and here is why: At one point Highscalability covered the reddit architecture, but he didn't actually talk to anyone at reddit about it, and got a lot of it wrong. I tried to contact him and get it fixed, but he never responded to me. So I have to wonder where these numbers are coming from.

Probably here http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/32-billion-imag... which he cites in the article ;)

Re: PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Post by toddh »

jedberg wrote: post #15

I'm not sure I believe this and here is why: At one point Highscalability covered the reddit architecture, but he didn't actually talk to anyone at reddit about it, and got a lot of it wrong. I tried to contact him and get it fixed, but he never responded to me. So I have to wonder where these numbers are coming from.

Jedberg, I'm sorry I didn't respond, but I don't have a record of getting an email. Corrections are always welcome. A lot of articles are summaries from multiple sources, so they aren't made up (I'm not sure how I would even do that), and the sources are always referenced somewhere. But of course I could screw up. And I don't make an effort to contact people anymore because seldom is there a contact point and they rarely respond or follow up. Which is why I rely so heavily on existing materials like blog posts, presentations, slide decks, forum threads, and whatever else I can find.

Re: PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month

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Post by GFischer »

gdhillon wrote: post #13

Does anyone know the technology stack used for front and backend by POF?

It used to be based on IIS and ASP.NET (one of the biggest Microsoft success stories on those technologies).

Edit: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyofFish they used ASP.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in 2007.

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