Scaling for Adult Hosting John Adams Gamelink Operations [email_address]

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Scaling for what, exactly? Gamelink - ~60,000 films online in various formats (VOD / PPM / Download-to-own) Nearly every major adult studio About 2900 domains (We like domains)

Gamelink - ~60,000 films online in various formats (VOD / PPM / Download-to-own)

Nearly every major adult studio

About 2900 domains (We like domains)

Internet Video has different challenges HTTP Server DB Application Server Streaming Servers Media Servers / SAN Transcoding Cache? hard to cache!

Three things... Transcode Store Deliver.

Transcoding A computationally intensive process to convert video from one format to another Plan for it, or make someone else do it! .MOV .FLA .WMV

Better living through (cheap) distributed computing!

Get it there. sneakernet? tape? ew! Ship Disk Arrays? Metro Ethernet?

Store it! Scalable Reliable Cheap

Scaling Storage Make vs. Buy SANs are too expensive RAID not always best Many vendors use the same chassis and disks. Don’t waste your money.

Make vs. Buy

SANs are too expensive

RAID not always best

Many vendors use the same chassis and disks. Don’t waste your money.

Scaling Models Vertical ( Big disk - Only goes so far ) Horizontal ( More Disk Units ) Scales forever, difficult to manage External Hosting: CDNs not always accepting of adult content. (few are!)

Managing Storage Where’s that file? Are you authorized for it?

Delivery

Build networks for video.

People Webservers Load Balancer Media Servers streams reset if media servers go down!

redundancy is hard. Choose an acceptable level of FAIL.

Abuse... Everyone wants your content. Scale for abuse and third-party linking (or block it!) Content theft, piracy, USC 2257

Pay Per Minute = $ lost per minute of downtime

Space + Power

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