Gravatar Anniversary.
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It’s now been one year since Automattic acquired Gravatar. “Gravatar now lives on about 20 servers. 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server. That combination of servers is handling an average of 7,214 of your requests every second of every day. That’s a whopping 623,293,056 requests daily!” Wowza!
Happy Anniversary!
Wowza indeed! I don’t know how you do it.
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Well done, That is a hell of a lot of requests matt.
You’ve done brilliantly in the online computing world! hazar!
That’s amazing
I used to complain about Gravatar getting really slow back in the days. No wonder it’s snappy now 
Hahah, I just wrote something carefully about Gravatar and many reader of me from China had registered it
Congrats, the first of many Gravatar anniversary’s im sure
All the best for the future and have a fab weekend
Something tells me that there are quite a number of servers in use, I can only imagine what you need for WordPress.org or the .com site!
LOL
Good Job !
This service is really cool.
The work realised in 1 year was great.
Cool! nice servers, I would like to see pics of them.
How they get money to run those servers?
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Wow, that is a lot of resources…*drools*
-Mike
Just imagine how many resources will be needed in another 5 years :O
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How does Auttomattic make money from the Gravatar service?
We don’t.
Congrats!
623,293,056 requests daily!
awesome request
Its almost suspicious.
Actually it is suspicious.
All that traffic and no money being made off it?
On THIS internet?
I doubt it