Content-sharing provider, Posterous, relies on Rackspace® hybrid hosting to deliver consistent performance and an infrastructure that scales as they grow. Using a solution that combines dedicated and cloud environments, along with CDN powered by Akamai®, Posterous is able to reliably distribute large amounts of information and media, worldwide, to nearly 11 million visitors a month.
Posterous Case Study: Find out how Rackspace delivers predictability and flexibility for Posterous' performance-intensive site.
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Customer's Business:
Free service that allows consumers and small businesses to share publicly or privately with friends and family with their own custom site.
Challenges:
Maintain consistent performance while distributing large media files, avoid DDOS attacks, deal with spiky traffic and unpredictable growth.
Rackspace Solution:
Managed Colocation, Preventier™ network security system, RackConnect™, Cloud Servers™, Cloud Files™, Akamai® CDN
Business Outcome:
Consistent performance; websites available; mitigation of DDOS attacks; hosting services are flexible as Posterous grows, saving them money spent on resources
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