http://simonwillison.net/2008-05-01T10:13:09+00:00Simon Willison2008-05-01T10:13:09+00:002008-05-01T10:13:09+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/1/codeword/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/10/10/so-you-wanna-see-an-image/">so-you-wanna-see-an-image</a></strong></p> WordPress.com use Amazon S3 to store images (presumably to save having to create a massive scalable redundant filesystem themselves) but the images are served via a load balanced memcached / varnishd caching system that they control. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/static-hostname-hashing-in-pound/">Static hostname hashing in Pound</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon-s3">amazon-s3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/caching">caching</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcached">memcached</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/s3">s3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/varnish">varnish</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wordpresscom">wordpresscom</a></p>