Goodreads is much faster!
posted by Otis on October, 01

Goodreads has grown quite a lot in the last year, and to support our 2.5 million users and over 30 million monthly pageviews, we had to upgrade "what's under the hood" - and get a whole new set of servers!

Our new servers are lean, mean, and really freakin' fast. Oh - and did we mention SSD's? The change should help us continue to grow and handle more traffic - and it should also finally let us focus on new features instead of scaling problems!

Our old servers were rented from Media Temple, which we highly recommend for any small and growing site.


Here are some beautifully done shots of the new colo, taken by Michaels iphone, in between some intense sessions of installing software:







We like to imagine that Goodreads is now powered by something like this:




ps. This post in no way promises that we will still be fast in coming months if you all keep browsing more and more pages. But we like to think it will!