Scaling for Adult Hosting

John Adams

GamelinkOperations

jna@retina.net

VoIPInternet Bandwidth

Video CodecsMobile Video / 3G

Phones

porn fuels technologyVHS

CamcordersUsenetImage

Compression

porn fuels technology

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)

Internet Video has different

challengesHTTP 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.MOV

.FLA.FLA

.WMV.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 samechassis and disks. Don’t wasteyour money.

Scaling ModelsVertical ( 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.

PeoPeopleple

Webservers

Load Load BalanceBalance

rr

Media Servers

streams reset if mediaservers 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

Thanks!

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