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Yet another PR fluff piece on Lotusflow3r.com -- these guys are PROUD of being associated with it? http://in.sys-con.com/node/930787
SAUSALITO, CA, April 22 /PRNewswire/ - On March 24th, at 7:07pm, Prince launched LotusFlow3r.com. Almost instantly, the traffic exploded. Within hours the site was pushing over 1 Gb/s of traffic. At a sustained rate, that's enough bandwidth to deliver 1.3 Million YouTube videos a day.
The highly interactive, LotusFlow3r.com site was built by associates Scott Addison Clay, Anthony Malzone, Mark McBride and Union Studio. To support a media-heavy site with the ability to scale with the anticipated traffic, owner Scott Addison Clay chose to use Joyent cloud computing. "As every member of LotusFlow3r.com is able to discover and enjoy many hours of music and videos through a video game style experience, we knew we would need a solution that could serve a massive amount of content securely, yet be flexible to scale as needed. Joyent's cloud allowed us to do all of this without the hassle of a large hardware set up process. Their bandwidth fees are a fraction of a typical CDN, so we welcomed the high volume of traffic." said Clay. "The Joyent cloud powers sites for CNN, Visa, the Gap, Major League Baseball, even NASA. We power 25% of the daily active application usage on Facebook. We've never seen anything like the kind of instant jump in traffic that showed up as soon as the LotusFlow3r.com site launched" said Joyent's CTO Jason Hoffman. Within 18 hours after the initial spike, to handle load balancing, advanced traffic management and site caching, Joyent scaled the server configuration from a cluster of 4 Joyent Accelerators and 1 Zeus Accelerator, to a cluster of 8 Joyent Accelerators and 3 Zeus Accelerators. So all those people that were complaining here for DAYS must have been crazy, right? I mean, look at the article: they fixed it within 18 hours. Right? © Bart Van Hemelen
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"Highly interactive"
you need to click twice randomly...  "My God it's full of Stars"
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interesting article, thank you for posting Bart 
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Still high traffic!?
The site appears dead! Nothing changed the past week+. Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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BartVanHemelen said: http://in.sys-con.com/node/930787
Within 18 hours after the initial spike, to handle load balancing, advanced traffic management and site caching, Joyent scaled the server configuration from a cluster of 4 Joyent Accelerators and 1 Zeus Accelerator, to a cluster of 8 Joyent Accelerators and 3 Zeus Accelerators.
So all those people that were complaining here for DAYS must have been crazy, right? I mean, look at the article: they fixed it within 18 hours. Right? Within 18 houtrs of being informed of a problem they responded. What type of SLA (not: sealed lead acid) would they provide? What fee for underestimating the traffic and/or the sizability of their machinery? It is not our business but 18 hours (over two work shifts!) is not something to be proud of I think, having the info we have at this point in time. Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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