Prince's LotusFlow3r.com explodes onto the Joyent Cloud
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Interactive agency Addison Design Associates leverages the new Zeus ZXTM
traffic manager on the Joyent Cloud to successfully support the massive
influx of traffic!


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.


About Addison Design Associates


Addison Design Associates specializes in highly interactive online experiences for the entertainment industry. In addition to Prince, they have delivered sites for Paramount and National Lampoon. Owner Scott Addison Clay also serves as VP of Digital Marketing at The Cimarron Group.


About Joyent, Inc.


Joyent is a Cloud Computing vendor of 'Infrastructure as a Service' (IaaS). Joyent provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to buying and running your own IT infrastructure, while still providing all the security, cost stability, and enterprise-grade performance of a dedicated private data center.

Joyent was founded in 2004 with a seed investment from co-founder and CEO David Young and Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel. Since then, Joyent has grown organically and has been completely funded by revenue. Joyent's customers include LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, Gilt.com, Facebook, and 20,000 other companies ranging from small development shops to large Fortune 500 enterprise users. Joyent powers 25% of the daily application traffic on Facebook. www.joyent.com


About Zeus Technology


Zeus Technology provides application delivery software to ensure applications are faster, highly available and easy to manage. Zeus' ZXTM solution lowers costs for data centre space and power, cuts the cost of bandwidth and offers the highest scalability of any application delivery controller or load balancer in the industry. As the only software application delivery solution available, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; the cloud, a virtualized environment, as a purpose-built Zeus appliance or on standard servers. Zeus provides web infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers including: BT, ITV, China Telecom, NASA, PLAY.COM, The Institute of Financial Services, Hotel.de and STA Travel. www.zeus.com.
[Edited 4/22/09 6:35am]