I am very excited to announce the initial roll out of distributed storage solution that powers up our services.
Now, with multiple data centers around the world, we are able to provide a much improved data transfer experience to millions of our users. Our analysis shows that file transfer speed is a function of the distance to the data center (among other things). As you move farther the data center, your transfer speed drops 2 times every 1000 miles. Uploaders will particularly benefit from our distributed data centers because uploads are usually several times slower than downloads and any improvement in upload speed is much more noticeable.
Here is how it works…
As a new data center is configured and is brought up, our turnkey solutions allows us to make it live without taking the site down. Immediately the new servers will start serving new requests for file transfers. But not just any requests – the traffic that is directed to the data center is selected based on IP mapping database. User IP is extracted from the request and the closest data center is selected to service this particular request. Combine this with our resumable upload enabled desktop application (available at http://www.yousendit.com/cms/standalone-app) and you will get a truly worry-free experience uploading very large files.
We are currently in the process of setting up more data centers. The selection of the locations for new data centers is based on careful analysis of YouSendIt usage patterns to provide an improved experience for our subscribers.
Stay tuned for more news from the YouSendIt technology team!
Leonid Blyukher
VP of Engineering
Tags: Data Center, File Transfer, YouSendIt
September 4, 2007 at 3:39 am |
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