After enormous Fallout-related traffic spike, Nexus Mods announces increase to its subscription costs to keep up with increasing demand
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The examples listed include the site sending $8 million to mod authors – a number that apparently increases by around $10,000 per day. Nexus Mods' staff headcount has also risen beyond 30, with plans to expand its community team even further. As for the website itself, the post says that the capabilities of both the Nexus Mods servers and content delivery network infrastructure (CDN) have been increased many times over the years in order to keep up with demand.
“We have just this week signed off on purchasing another 30x 16TB NVME drives for our own CDN nodes and increasing their network capacity to 80GB/sec per node to keep up with demand,” the post explains. “During our most recent peak following the release of the Fallout series we moved more than 2.5PB in 24 hours at an average speed of around 225GB/sec, and this would have been even higher if we weren’t maxing out every 10G network port that we had available!”
Right now, the website’s infrastructure requires “over 700 CPUs and 5TB of memory to help serve around 4,000 incoming web requests per second at peak times,” the post adds, with the site currently serving around one billion requests every day. Needless to say, it’s popular, even without enormous boosts from the likes of Fallout’s recent resurgence.
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