Those are words I’ve lived by all of my life… Back in grad-school had a sweet young thing playing a guy to get a ring on her finger. She would go out with him but deny him anything other than a kiss, and bee-line it to my place so she could get the randiness f**ked out of her.

The week before her wedding when she knew she was fertile, we f**ked like rabbits all the way up to the day of her wedding. She walked down the aisle full of my wedding present to her and her beta hubby… What a sucker… Gave birth almost 9 months to the day of her wedding – most people don’t know the gestational period of a human is 40 weeks, which is closer to 10 months than 9… But 9 is society’s nod to women being knocked up before the wedding…

Forget the leads, stainless steel insert with a rubber insulator down the center. We need to work out some angst….

I wonder. Then again, not my problem.

The Stats
PlentyOfFish (POF) gets 1.2 billion page views/month, and 500,000 average unique logins per day. The peak season is January, when it will grow 30 percent.
POF has one single employee: the founder and CEO Markus Frind.
Makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day.
30+ Million Hits a Day (500 – 600 pages per second).
1.1 billion page views and 45 million visitors a month.
Has 5-10 times the click through rate of Facebook.
A top 30 site in the US based on Competes Attention metric, top 10 in Canada and top 30 in the UK.
2 load balanced web servers with 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon X5355 @ 2.66Ghz), 8 Gigs of RAM (using about 800 MBs), 2 hard drives, runs Windows x64 Server 2003.
3 DB servers. No data on their configuration.
Approaching 64,000 simultaneous connections and 2 million page views per hour.
Internet connection is a 1Gbps line of which 200Mbps is used.
1 TB/day serving 171 million images through Akamai.
6TB storage array to handle millions of full sized images being uploaded every month to the site.

TWO fucking web servers, THREE database servers, and a backed SAN, and the web servers are anything but high end

if you are running one host and one server, you’ll have the following in your ns records

ns1.host1.com
ns2. host1.com

say you re using two hosts, host1.com and host2.com, each running a mirror of the same site you can round robin it

on host 1
ns1.host1.com
ns2.host1.com
ns1.host2.com
ns2.host2.com

and on the other one

ns1.host2.com
ns2.host2.com
ns1.host1.com
ns2.host1.com

so no matter what happens you get NS/MX etc records that will point to one of your mirrors

however the PROBABLE actual problem in the case of the spearhead is cheap ass hosting (do a traceroute) with dreamhost (shower of shite) which is why you keep having things fall over when you reach your allocated virtual server process / ram limit…. it’s like trying to run Skyrim on an old dell latitude

My own small business website runs on server with duallie six core opetron 2427, 32 gig of ram, dell cerc 6/i, load averages between 5 and 6 and it has shunted 4.95 TiB on eth0 with 0 error/dropped packets, and one of the things I run on it is a very complex and intensive (for a small website) mysql database ( just one of many I am running on that domain) with 600+ megs of compressed data, which blows away anything the spearhead will be using… as guide this entire blog is a 6 mb xml file, which would crush down to less than 2 meg as an sql file

round robin would have hidden the problem and ensured users still had access to a mirror of the spearhead, but the actual problem according to Bill himself was “excessive” ram usage, which is horseshit, it can’t use that much, what he means is excessive compared to the cheap ass hosting he is using..

which is IMHO unforgiveable considering the number of people who I saw who EACH bunged him 100 bucks at a time in donations

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/rr.html etc

Might I ask how this is done? I’ve been trying to find out how to do mirror sites without a lot of luck – except to be told that it isn’t needed.