BlogWorld & New Media Expo Las Vegas 2007 “ How to serve 1 million page views in 15 minutes.”

Presenters: Joe Rodriguez Manager of Product Engineering ServerBeach, A PEER 1 Company Barry Abrahamson Systems Wrangler WordPress

Joe Rodriguez

Manager of Product Engineering

ServerBeach, A PEER 1 Company

Barry Abrahamson

Systems Wrangler

WordPress

The Story

WordPress Stats Unique Hits - Trailing 30-Day Total

WordPress Stats Daily Total Visits

WordPress Stats Total 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

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 seamlessly Availability: SB datacenters uses multiple OC-48 uplinks that connect to the PEER 1 network with fully redundant power and network systems

Scalability:

The SB Automation system allowed WP to build a large number of servers quickly

WP can add servers to existing configuration seamlessly

Availability:

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

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, Adobe Professionalism: WordPress has a dedicated Account Manager and receives 24/7 support

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, Adobe

Professionalism:

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

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

Thank you for your time today.

Please visit our blog: serverbeach.wordpress.com