Yesterday was the first big test of ScribbleLive under load during the WWDC keynote where the iPhone 3G was announced. We burned a lot of hours over the last week getting ready, and I start off with a big thanks to our key service partners.

Akamai did their usual stellar job of handling the traffic the event generated, and deflected the vast majority of the traffic off our origin servers. We were able to feed continuous updates to almost 8,000 visitors with very little load on our systems. Now that we know our caching algorithm is stable, we can go bigger next time and get some real load on the servers

I’d also like to thank our host GoGrid for helping us get our servers ready for the event. Their dedicated cloud servers handled the bandwidth and the load without a hiccup. And it only cost $15 for the entire day! These guys have been a great option for a bootstrap startup like us.

Now to get down to the numbers

3.33 Pages/Visit
04:58 Avg. Time on Site
81.47% % New Visits
Akamai Page Views: 2.3 Million
Total Page Volume: 13.4 GB
S3 cost: $0.63
Peak bandwidth: 171 views/sec at 2:45pm 7.4 Mbits/sec at 1:10

Thanks to everyone who chose us to watch the keynote! There are lots of great events going on every day on ScribbleLive thanks to our great community. Check out the recent coverage of nextMEDIA: Future of Digital Content, Graphing Social Patterns East 2008, and STC 2008.

Happy Liveblogging!