Bandwidth and business
In the last 12 months, the amount of traffic on tradebit.(com/de/es) almost doubled. The amount of storage we currently use is well above 24 Terabytes. With around 150,000 unique visitors and combined with all the spiders (like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and all the others), the affiliate calls, Javascript shops and free MP3 previews we are currently pumping around 50-100 requests per second from our webfrontends out to the world.
The bandwidth usage is quite ok, because we deliver so many text and small files that we are not in trouble here, yet we pump around 60-90 Megabits per second in Houston and few Mbit/s on our regional outlets.
We have constantly at least 2 FTP users uploading, sometimes 20, record currently is at 41 concurrent FTP uploaders.
We have an average load of 35% spread on the cluster nodes and host more than 40 Linux servers around the world. More than half of that with ThePlanet in Houston.
Tradebit had 2 major and 3 minor outages in 5 years. We have been hacked 2 times, but we overcame that without data loss.
Next week will be a big event for us, because we will double the amount of products on Tradebit. Until then, I will stop blogging and focus on the updates unless something important should be posted.
