Mobshare, our multimedia sharing network, will start using DNS rotation soon. With the current user growth and traffic, the server loads are expected to shoot up in 2 months time. By that time we will be setting up 5 servers. 3 servers are to serve http requests, 1 server will be database server and the other one for format conversion and processor intensive calculations. Activity calculations eat up processing power.
The decision...
October 13, 2007 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (0)
Mobshare now uses Amazon S3
Mobshare is now using Amazon S3 storage for serving all the media uploaded by the users. The decision to move to Amazon happened after a server performance issue. A local daily featured Mobshare and our server couldn’t handle the load and the performance degraded. We lost a lot of new registrations that day because many couldnt sign up as the pages were loading very slow.
Amazon S3 was a easy option to offload the media....
October 9, 2007 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (1)


