MogileFS

General Discussion

Building scalable storage into application - Instead of MogileFS OpenAFS etc.

I am planning the scaling of a hosted service, similar to typepad etc. and would appreciate feedback on my plan so far. Looking into scaling storage, I have come accross MogileFS and OpenAFS. My concern with these is I am not at all experienced with them and as the sole

Example

TypePad Architecture

TypePad is considered the largest paid blogging service in the world. After experience problems because of their meteoric growth, they eventually transitioned to an architecture patterned after their sister company, LiveJournal. Site: http://www.typepad.com/ The Platform MySQL Memcached Perl MogileFS Apache Linux The Stats As of 2005 TypePad