How Gravatar scales on WordPress.com hardware

Friday, October 26, 2007 at 1:08PM
Todd Hoff in automattic, gravatar, hp, lighttpd, varnish, wordpress

Automattic recently purchase Gravatar and have switched the server onto their hosting platform. WordPress.com host over 1.7 million blogs with well over 60'000 new posts submitted each day generating 10 - 12 million page views per day.

Barry on WordPress.com has a great post on the changes they've introduced to help Gravatar scale.

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).