#infrastructure

Here are our posts tagged infrastructure:

• Temporary file storage migration from S3 to R2

  We're migrating our temporary file storage from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2. This change brings significant cost savings through free egress, but has a small impact on custom temporary...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  October 29, 2025

• Expanding to a Hybrid Cloud with Hetzner

  Earlier this month we finished a major infrastructure project: expanding Transloadit into a hybrid platform that combines Hetzner Cloud, AWS, and bare metal on Hetzner. The goal is...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  October 15, 2025

• Switching our CA to Let's Encrypt (and possible breakage)

  We are writing to address a recent issue that has arisen as a result of our change in SSL certificates from GoDaddy to Let's Encrypt. A small number of our customers have reported...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  July 6, 2023

• Introducing new Rate Limiter for better performance

  At Transloadit, we strive to avoid limiting our customers' usage in any way. For this reason, we have thus far only had a single rate limiter in place, which limits the number of r...
  Tim Koschützki  ·  October 7, 2016

• Transloadit achieves A+ SSL rating for superior security

  As we have stated many times before, 100% security is a myth. Of course, that is not to say that we aren’t doing everything we can to keep the use of our service as secure as possi...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  July 1, 2016

• Addressing Redis issues to enhance stability and speed

  Sometimes, things go wrong at Transloadit. When that happens, we want to be transparent about it and own up to our mistakes. In that light, I'm disclosing an issue that affected 81...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  May 30, 2016

• Upgrading our operating systems to Ubuntu's Trusty

  Time for an engineering update! At Transloadit, we have been long-time Ubuntu aficionados. To back that statement up - look what I found during a recent move to a new apartment in...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  October 26, 2015

• Transloadit scales to 1500 machines for faster encoding

  Encoding is hard work for servers. When we started this business, we knew from the start that it would be much easier for customers to send us jobs than it would be for us to proce...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  August 20, 2015

• Kicking Transloadit into gear for the new year

  Every six months, we share our highlights through a newsletter and a corresponding blog post. It is traditionally a little overdue, so let's get to it! 😄
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  February 1, 2015

• Stability & performance boosts with enhanced scaling

  We are excited to announce a few updates that we have been working on over the past few weeks. These changes will hopefully serve to further stabilize the platform and make it even...
  Tim Koschützki  ·  July 24, 2012

• Addressing elevated queue times & ensuring reliability

  Last night we experienced an outage that we promised to shed some more light on. At 22.35 CET it came to our attention that we had elevated queue times.
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  March 31, 2012

• Database upgrade fuels 400% growth with minimal downtime

  Update: The maintenance was a success, we were down for only 4 minutes.
  Felix Geisendörfer  ·  July 5, 2011

• Transloadit boosts reliability with Amazon Route 53

  As you probably know, Transloadit has been running its production infra on Amazon's cloud since day 1 - our block stores, encoding servers, load balancers, the full monty. Except f...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  March 18, 2011

• Boosting x264 encoding speed by 20x with CPU optimizations

  After a few recent complaints from our customers, it became evident that our x264 encoding configuration was way too slow. Not only had we missed some critical optimizations when c...
  Felix Geisendörfer  ·  March 1, 2011

• Boosting encoding speeds with 8-core machines upgrade

  Last night, we switched our default machine type from Amazon's c1.medium (2 core) instances, to x1.large.
  Felix Geisendörfer  ·  March 1, 2011

• Optimizing HAProxy logging on Debian/Ubuntu systems

  At Transloadit, we use HAProxy "The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer", so that we can offer different services on one port. For instance, depending on th...
  Kevin van Zonneveld  ·  August 12, 2010