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Posted 22 May 2012 - 04:05 AM (#1)

Pinterest architecture - $39,000 per month for 410 TB data in S3


An interesting article: http://highscalabili...10x-growth.html

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80 million objects stored in S3 with 410 terabytes of user data, 10x what they had in August. EC2 instances have grown by 3x. Around $39K fo S3 and $30K for EC2.
Pay for what you use saves money. Most traffic happens in the afternoons and evenings, so they reduce the number of instances at night by 40%. At peak traffic $52 an hour is spent on EC2 and at night, during off peak, the spend is as little as $15 an hour.
150 EC2 instances in the web tier
90 instances for in-memory caching, which removes database load
35 instances used for internal purposes
70 master databases with a parallel set of backup databases in different regions around the world for redundancy
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 11:41 AM (#2)

Isn't their revenue literally $0? Cheap for what it is, but still very expensive for a company that isn't making anything.
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 11:45 AM (#3)

View PostDarkCoder, on 22 May 2012 - 11:41 AM, said:

Isn't their revenue literally $0? Cheap for what it is, but still very expensive for a company that isn't making anything.

They probably work similar to how facebook does.
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 05:09 PM (#4)

Tumblr is easily 30-40 times bigger, and also has close to no income. They also host all their images in S3.

No clue how either survive
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 05:19 PM (#5)

View PostDaniel15, on 22 May 2012 - 05:09 PM, said:

Tumblr is easily 30-40 times bigger, and also has close to no income. They also host all their images in S3.

No clue how either survive


Funding and valuations are the keywords you're looking for.
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Posted 23 May 2012 - 09:24 AM (#6)

Pretty much from Angel investors isn't it? Sites like that rely on having lots of capital up front from outside investors, then when they get a significant mindshare they get adverts (obviously companies will pay loads because by this point everyone knows who they are, and as a social network they can target ads quite well). Then in the long term they IPO and make tons of money back for the initial angel investors and early employees, before surviving off a combination of investments and advertisements.
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Posted 23 May 2012 - 05:59 PM (#7)

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when they get a significant mindshare they get adverts

I don't think Tumblr got the memo. Look at how big they are and they still have no ads. :P
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 03:50 PM (#8)

Another key word, referral traffic. Pinterest tops Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and YouTube in driving referral traffic.
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