Apr 27 2007
AuctionAds Shows Off Its Rack
By Jeremy Schoemaker
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On the Official AuctionAds Blog CTO David Dellanave posted a picture of the hardware that powers AuctionAds and also some stats:
For the month of April we are averaging over 60 million hits per day. Thats roughly:
400 hits/sec at peak times
58 gigs of Javascript per day
134 gigs of HTML per day
16 gigs of RAM cache
1.1 gigs of MySQL (yes, only)
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Nice Rack! That’s an insane amount of data transfer.
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Wow that thing is sexy!
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man that is some awesome stats!!!
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I have a setup similar to that.. In my dreams.. LOL
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Nice bit of kit you have there, looking at the hardware prices its so much cheaper than UK Dell Kit
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do yall use memcached?
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we use our own proprietary cashing technology
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Wow.. that’s a serious rack..
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Its ShoeMoneycached
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That brings back nightmares of my day job. I’m so glad I don’t have to spend my time messing with that stuff anymore!
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Holy Moses that’s some data transfer! Hmm, looks like I take up about a whole 3 seconds worth of Auction Ads resources per day.
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What a rack!
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Thats some serious computing power! Takes $ to make $ i gues
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I’m more impressed at the number of diggs!
(Must be all the mentions of the word “rack” :P)
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Yeah, and it probably still won’t run the game “Crysis” when it comes out later on this year
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hmmm is it very efficient? by the looks of it, it seems so… any chance on licensing?
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That would make for one hell of a home computer. =P I bet it took an insane amount of thought to hook all that up.
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60 Million hits per day!
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Ya, it’s odd what gets digged and what doesn’t… err probably not
tech = digg
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Yeah, I can certainly see 1300+ diggers drooling over that machine. (Heck, even I did :P)
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I just signed up for auction ads yesterday from an email I received….I will let you know how it works for me jeremy!
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I guess from the number of hits once could calculate how many ads the network is serving daily, right?
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that’s what she said… not really
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LOL.. I think they misses the spelling of cashed… nice pun!
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that would be an interesting spec to hear. I don’t know how you could guess based on the informatyion given, but I don’t see why Jeremy wouldn’t just give that info. I am sure its an insaine number as well.
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Pun, or just Jeremy’s spelling. Tough call.
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You know… we don’t do anywhere near that much traffic and our hardware isn’t that much different. I think I went overkill making sure we didn’t have any downtime. Better too much than too little, though.
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well it’s not always good to share your stats…
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I was hoping to see some females
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I’m actually not surprised.. I mean they are serving ad’s to 10,000+ websites.. That being said it certainly puts my own bandwidth useage to shame
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Ya it’s impressive but don’t forget it’s just hits, I would be curious to see how many individual people auctionads reaches every day though
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More then likely he wasn’t joking… Auctionads must be like printing your own money
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Definately, though it makes you wonder how much computing power adsense uses
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In some cases it can be bad but for the most part I think we’d all be better off if some global stats were published by the big networks, like I don’t see the problem with letting publishers know the percentage paid out on a click or action or for that matter what a sites CTR or CPM is..
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how much will that set you back?
yeah btw misleading title! haha … linkbait alert!!
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Yea, and google overall
Would like to see their main server 
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Good to see the auctionads blog is taking off too. Seems that area is getting a ton of traffic too.
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Wow, that is some pretty impressive hardware! I’m really stunned at how little mysql bandwidth there is!
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Boooooo….I was thinking of another kind of rack!
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