BlogWorld & New Media Expo Las Vegas 2007

“How to serve 1 million page views in 15 minutes.”

Presenters:

Joe RodriguezManager of Product Engineering

ServerBeach, A PEER 1 Company

Barry AbrahamsonSystems Wrangler

WordPress

The

Story

WordPress StatsUnique Hits - Trailing 30-Day

Total

WordPress StatsDaily Total Visits

WordPress StatsTotal 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

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

seamlesslyAvailability: • 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

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, AdobeProfessionalism:• 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

Q & A

Thank you for your time today.

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