FilesTube
FilesTube was one of the busiest websites on the Internet (79th in the Top 100 Alexa Rank).
Key Challenges
FilesTube was one of the busiest websites on the Internet — 79th in the Top 100 Alexa Rank — a search engine designed to search files across various file sharing and uploading sites. Serving that traffic required a high-load, high-availability multi-DC solution.
File-search engine at massive scale
FilesTube was a search engine designed to search files across various file sharing and uploading sites, and grew into one of the busiest websites on the Internet (79th in the Top 100 Alexa Rank).
High-load, high-availability infrastructure
Serving that traffic demanded a high-load and high-availability multi-DC solution running on over 150 bare-metal servers.
Rapid-growth infrastructure overhaul
As traffic surged, issues arose that neither the team nor their existing partners could solve; Traceroute42 modified the infrastructure, implemented new technologies and ran an efficient migration.
Features realised
Full-text search with Sphinx
Sphinx Search powers fast full-text search across an enormous index of files spread over many file sharing and uploading sites.
Scalable data layer
MySQL and Cassandra provide a hybrid relational and wide-column data layer able to handle the read and write volume of a top-100 website.
High-performance caching
Memcache and Redis cache hot query results and session data, keeping response times low under sustained high load.
Multi-DC network on bare metal
Over 150 bare-metal servers across multiple data centers, with Juniper networking, deliver the high availability the platform's traffic demanded.
“Our cooperation with Traceroute42 began during our rapid growth when we came across issues that neither we nor our current partners could solve. Traceroute42 modified our infrastructure, implemented new technologies, conducted efficient migration and worked with our developers on application performance optimisation. Finally, Traceroute42 took over the management, monitoring and entire infrastructure maintenance.”
Arkadiusz Seńko, CEO, RedSky Sp. z o.o.