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By no means am I an architecture expert but I've wondered if these statistics would look much different if stackoverflow had more images and video?
by wuliwong 12y ago
By no means am I an architecture expert but I've wondered if these statistics would look much different if stackoverflow had more images and video?
- tinco 12y agoThey would simply have additional file servers, could be any amount depending on how many video/images. They would possibly have to be in separate datacenters though, since shipping large amounts of data over seas can be inefficient and possibly expensive. I'm not sure at what point that starts to be a necessity, they're big but it's still a niche market. And their content is very sparsely visited (i.e. it wouldn't happen often that 80% of their audience would view a single question).
- samirageb 12y agoThe stats that would be hit the most obviously would be bandwidth, followed by RAM. Storage requirements would change of course, but bandwidth would be absorbed by whatever CDN they're using, so traffic quantity stat would be different. Also, with images/videos, they're now sending more URLs/embeds/etc. along with data, so more characters = more RAM for caching and/or serving up on web servers. In theory, shouldn't be much more of a hit.