Most founders of successful social media sites just do it, and then somehow find the money to pay the tech guys to clean up from initial growth. Facebook is a good example of that.
I'd say just do it, and worry about scaling later. Personally, I've thrown in memcache into sites like dogster.com and mccannny.com when there wasn't a clean way to optimize the SQL queries or query optimization was taken as far as it could go. For caching video, I'm going to use Amazon's Cloudfront which is pretty cheap and can be all set up through a web interface... But it might be more educational to set up servers in different geographic locations as a proxy cache, e.g. IF IP is close to NYC, use the NYC video proxy. my penny, Barce On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Adam Lee<[email protected]> wrote: > How much traffic are you expecting? If you're planning to grow very large, > I would suggest looking into a CDN like Akamai, CloudFront, etc... > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:24 AM, mel_06 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi again guys, >> >> i'm doing a social networking site relates to music, i need some >> advice on caching on images, videos and audio files. thanks! > > > > -- > awl >
