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Its 2012 and we still embrace high Pageviews and architectures to handle them but ignore revenue.

Its high time everypost about insane pageviews and servers be coupled with solid revenue numbers.



This is a post about architecture and scalability, not business.


It's a fairly shaky assumption that an engineer putting together a MySQL sharding presentation would know the revenue numbers for the company.


Even if they did, they shouldn't be disclosing them.


15B pageviews with modest ad monetization would yield something around $15 million per month.


$1 CPM is not modest, depending on the website. Many sites make much less than that.


Indeed $1CPM for this type of site would be quite high.


tumblr gets a cut whenever someone "buys" a tumblr design. Have no idea what that equates to in revenue but they are getting revenue.




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