PlentyOfFish Update - 6 Billion Pageviews and 32 Billion Images a Month

Markus has a short update on their PlentyOfFish Architecture. Impressive November statistics:

• 6 billion pageviews served
• 32 billion images served
• 6 million logins in one day
• IM servers handle about 30 billion pageviews
• 11 webservers (5 of which could be dropped)
• Hired first DBA in July. They currently have a handful of employees.
• All hosting/cdn costs  combined are under $70k/month.

Lesson: small organization, simple architecture, on raw hardware is still plenty profitable for PlentyOfFish.

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Comments

[Antony]

Wow, where do you get the 70K per mo figure? Is there a cost breakdown somewhere?

[JH]

Probaly ads.

[sebastien]

You forgot: " Plenty of fake profiles to catch plenty of fish".

[Lalu]

nice update. thanks