Case Study: Spot.IM achieves 1B+ monthly page views at 70% lower costs with Redis

How to handle 1 billion page views a month cost effectively

Spot.IM is a next‑generation community engagement platform that powers conversations for thousands of media sites (including Time Inc., Meredith and LittleThings), serving over 200 million unique users and more than one billion page views per month. The company needed an extremely low‑latency, highly available in‑memory architecture that could handle massive traffic peaks (hundreds of thousands of messages per second) while keeping operational overhead and costs under control.

Spot.IM solved this by running Redis Labs’ enterprise Redis—using Redis on Flash in an AWS SSD environment—within an Elixir/node.js architecture, gaining seamless, noiseless scaling and true high availability. The result: sub‑millisecond latencies, stable linear performance at peak loads (hundreds of thousands of requests per second and up to a billion page requests per month), minimal database CPU usage, and roughly 70% lower costs compared with a pure RAM solution.

Spot.IM

Ishay Green

CTO & Co-Founder