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You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
I remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.
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300k requests/sec? Surely that can't be on a single Redis server, is it? Is Redis cluster out yet, or did they implement their own?
Redis can run anywhere from 50-200K IOPs, on a single core, dependent on CPU; you can find benchmarks at the following: * http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/Benchmarks * http://redis.io/topics/benchmarks At the point where multi-core sharding/ring setups are involved, you begin to have NIC/network saturation. It's feasible to achieve 300K on a single box.
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I remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.
How long did you spend on this "research" out of interest? :-)
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The online porn industry were the first people to really deal with scalability (of managing and serving web content, anyway), the first people to deal with online payments, the first people to come under really heavy, sustained hacking attempts, etc. Don't underestimate how much of what you take for granted technologically in 2012, they pioneered in the mid-90s.
As well as advertising networks and referral schemes. Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
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The online porn industry were the first people to really deal with scalability (of managing and serving web content, anyway), the first people to deal with online payments, the first people to come under really heavy, sustained hacking attempts, etc. Don't underestimate how much of what you take for granted technologically in 2012, they pioneered in the mid-90s.
As well as advertising networks and referral schemes. Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
Porn does "social", but only anonymous social, which is naturally handicapped.
If someone created a social network which allowed better privacy controls, the porn sites would love it.
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You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
I remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.
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100M page views per day is 1157 page views per second. I wonder how that's being blown up by a factor of 300? I suppose if each video's metadata causes a redis lookup and there are 300 videos displayed per page that would do it, but you'd think you could batch those lookups. It seems a fairly inefficient. Either that or they have some background jobs causing redis lookups that aren't a result of page views.
Perhaps the 300k/s figure was at peak load.
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I remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.
AEBN was and might still be the largest VOD service online and they run Windows or at least they did while I was there.