of the 500+ million page views a day, 70% of that is for the Dashboard
"dashboard" is their admin area?
So in theory 700 of their 1000 servers are for people to make a new post?
If I remember correctly, wp.com has a similar problem.
"dashboard" is their admin area?
So in theory 700 of their 1000 servers are for people to make a new post?
If I remember correctly, wp.com has a similar problem.
Tumblr is not a blogging platform like Wordpress, it's much more a community like Reddit. Yes, you can use Tumblr to host your blog, but the majority of people use the dashboard to interact with others and use their blog to share their content. Very few people will ever see username.tumblr.com, they'll see the posts via tumblr.com/dashboard. Like Twitter, very few people visit twitter.com/citricsquid, they follow me and see my tweets in their stream.
For example, my dashboard right now: http://i.imgur.com/0YAYv.jpg (potentially nsfw material, didn't check)
Lots of read-only content, and then a decent amount of interactions and events (messages/new follows/like notifications).