Tom DeLay Squarespace Blog / Traffic Managed

As a follow up to our recent statements on reliability — I wanted to take a moment to highlight what one customer was capable of producing and launching within one week (yes, one week total) of development time for a client on the Squarespace platform.

Tom DeLay, former United States House Majority Leader, had his Squarespace blog featured on MSNBC News’ Hardball Show on Monday evening, and simultaneously announced its inception to a subscriber mailing list containing half a million email addresses on the same day.

Needless to say — that sort of press produces an enormous spike in traffic.

This sort of thing — naturally — would utterly crush any sort of blog hosted using a shared hosting provider, or even one hosted on a single server, or even one hosted across multiple servers in an unoptimized environment. In fact, if you were to try and purchase the infrastructure to host a blog like this, you’d most likely be looking at $5,000+/month of managed hosting costs for the multiple servers and load balancers required to support this sort of infrastructure, not to mention the cost of your developers who would need to figure out how to distribute your blog in a coherent fashion across that infrastructure.

You could do that. Or you could just host your site using Squarespace — where this traffic spike was fully managed with 100% uptime at a price point around $100/month (after the massive bandwidth was factored in). Plus, the site is editable in real-time. There’s nothing to manage.

All of our customer sites are on the same infrastructure. Even our $7/month plan offers the same scalability and resiliency as our very largest sites. You can rest easy knowing that even in the largest of press situations, your site will be up and available for all of your readers to see — and that’s something we’re proud of.