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Tip-top Typography: With 37 GB daily traffic, 700 KB full metadata webfont hosting, and surging popularity, Brick selects Linode for its bandwidth, processing power, and reliability
Overview
Tip-top Typography: With 37 GB daily traffic, 700 KB full metadata webfont hosting, and surging popularity, Brick selects Linode for its bandwidth, processing power, and reliabilityLinode |
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud | |
Software | |
Business Operation | |
Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration | |
Operational Impact
Brick’s popularity grew rapidly throughout spring and early summer 2014. When Buffer, a social-media management app, started using Brick at the end of July, traffic more than doubled in terms of both requests and bandwidth. | |
Shared hosting could not have handled this load spike despite Brick’s CDN, Fastly, absorbing most of the traffic. The spike, easily handled by Linode’s origin server, would have necessitated Brick moving to a more expensive, higher-capacity plan on shared hosting or being suspended by its initial shared-host for exceeding use limits. | |
Linode’s infrastructure has allowed Brick to scale to the size it is today. With dramatically accelerated download speed, Brick users experienced less latency per request, a 43-percent improvement. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Latency reduced by more than 40 percent. | |
CSS generation time dropped by more than a factor of 7 (from 32.4 to 4.4 seconds). | |
Bandwidth enables 133 percent increase in daily requests. | |