+ - Just how big are porn websites?
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xmas2003
xmas2003 writes "ExtremeTech has an interesting piece about
how big are porn websites.
They get some actual traffic/bandwidth data from
YouPorn.Com (only NSFW link here)
which I'm sure has plenty of
naked chicks
and
Boobies
in their 100 Terabyte archive of porn.
Every day, they handle over 100 million page views and almost a
Petabyte of data transfer — one metric says this is about
10x of Slashdot.
While Sebastian Anthony has some fun with the subject matter — "While it's difficult domain to penetrate ... hard numbers are few and far between" — he plays it straight and provides some interesting facts about some of the most trafficked parts of the internet which present some
real scalability challenges (PPT preso) using software such as Redis & Nginx.
It's certainly a complicated industry as outlined in the
Geek-Kings of Smut."
While Sebastian Anthony has some fun with the subject matter — "While it's difficult domain to penetrate
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Just how big are porn websites?