Twitter. The spikes come every Thursday when the site gets updated with new content and then a major broadcast network tweets that new stuff is up, and the spike happens.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philip Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:35 AM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] Re: GAE Hauling the Freight That's a incredible spike, do you mind sharing the reason for this spike? TV coverage, a large advertising campaign or simply a software error? On Apr 29, 9:44 am, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote: > 900 Megabytes per second Burst for about 10 minutes, with 375 MBps for > about > 9 hours. That's 7.2Gigabits burst. To do that on a traditional > hosting provider would be 8 Dedicated machines serving Gigabit each, > and a 10 gig load balancer. Would have been about $15k a month with a > traditional hosting provider for this capacity. Client will spend > about $1500 this month instead, after our markup of the service. > > This is partly me bragging, but more it was a great demonstration of > the elasticity of the product. Look at the traffic before and after the spike. > GAE really shines on sites where you only need 100x the capacity 10 > minutes a week. And 50x for 6 hours a week. > > image001.png > 45KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
