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How WordPress Uses 300 Servers to Serve Millions of Blogs

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million? Well, you start out by watching this video of a lecture on HyperDB and High Performance WordPress given by Barry Abrahamson and Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2007, in which they explain how they scale WordPress.com across hundreds […]

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

This video features Google engineer Cuong Do, an engineering manager that helped scale the YouTube software and hardware infrastructure from its infancy to its current scale.
He discusses challenges of dealing with the growth including hardware, software and databases.

HostingCon 2007 (July 23-25) - Navy Pier, Chicago

Well, it’s confirmed. My business partner, Paul Hirsch, and I will be attending HostingCon in Chicago this July.
HostingCon is the largest Web hosting conference in the world, bringing together industry professionals to learn about the latest advances in related technology, business processes and marketing techniques.
Paul and I are both active participants on a number of […]