[Infowarrior] - Inside MySpace.com

[Richard Forno]

 Inside MySpace.com
January 16, 2007
By  David F. Carr

Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social network's
computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned
the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep
pace with exploding growth - the site now handles almost 40 billion page
views a month. Most corporate Web sites will never have to bear more than a
small fraction of the traffic MySpace handles, but anyone seeking to reach
the mass market online can learn from its experience.

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