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.
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?
Wow, that is a lot of resources…*drools*
-Mike
Just imagine how many resources will be needed in another 5 years :O
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 🙂