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[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I hope that we really test the whole cloudserver farms ability. Every year we push the server we have to its limits.

Since FIRST also went to a cloud server ( I think I read that) the FIRST website should be interesting too!

I believe FIRST is using Akamai, a global content delivery network to publish their static content (and possibly accelerate some other content). We aren't using a CDN .. just a server that we can change RAM/CPU on the fly (via reboot), to be prepared during the season and scale down during the off-season. Given this ability, we were able to keep costs relatively the same, but hopefully handle the high load during the season.