Case Study

MySpace

A Place for Friends

Microsoft's platform, applications, and development environment have been the foundation of MySpace's infrastructure since day one. MySpace relies on a range of Microsoft® technologies to meet critical performance and reliability criteria, provide rich new features and keep costs down.

Situation

MySpace has the second-highest traffic of all sites on the Web, with an estimated 38 million unique visits per month. More than 65 million registered members use the site to connect with friends, listen to music, share pictures and video, and write in their blogs—and 260,000 more users sign up every day. MySpace currently hosts about 430 million photos; musicians add thousands of MP3s to the site, and millions of songs are streamed out to users every day.

Solution

Microsoft's platform, applications, and development environment have been the foundation of MySpace's infrastructure since day one, and to keep up with the site's explosive growth, MySpace relies on a range of Microsoft® technologies to meet critical performance and reliability criteria, provide rich new features, and keep costs down.

Benefits

• ASP.NET "Atlas" client development platforms makes it easier to design rich highly customized user profiles.
• MySpace members can quickly create customized profiles.