Mike and the rest of the FR24 crew,
Over the past few years FR24 has grown tremendously, in both the coverage and the user demand. As far as I can tell, all services are hosted in Sweden, on a major network provider. At times of heavy traffic, things start getting hectic on network and server level. I noticed this yesterday afternoon even with my feeders having issues to connect to the mothership.
Have you not considered using CDN networks like Akamai, or Cloud Services like Google, for the hosting of the frontend servers, thereby having a smaller impact on your systems, while the bulk of the traffic is handled by the CDN/Cloud, which may be distributed over a few nodes around the globe?
Thinking for instance, hosting in South Africa (where your local currency is stronger than ours, making it "cheap" for you), and then something on an American and Asian network, taking the traffic from the respective regions... but keeping the mothership in Sweden protected from all the www requests.
[Apologies if this has been asked somewhere else]
Over the past few years FR24 has grown tremendously, in both the coverage and the user demand. As far as I can tell, all services are hosted in Sweden, on a major network provider. At times of heavy traffic, things start getting hectic on network and server level. I noticed this yesterday afternoon even with my feeders having issues to connect to the mothership.
Have you not considered using CDN networks like Akamai, or Cloud Services like Google, for the hosting of the frontend servers, thereby having a smaller impact on your systems, while the bulk of the traffic is handled by the CDN/Cloud, which may be distributed over a few nodes around the globe?
Thinking for instance, hosting in South Africa (where your local currency is stronger than ours, making it "cheap" for you), and then something on an American and Asian network, taking the traffic from the respective regions... but keeping the mothership in Sweden protected from all the www requests.
[Apologies if this has been asked somewhere else]
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