[OT] Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-19 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:59:18AM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: What I found most interesting was the detail of the extensive caching which was implemented to survive the seasonal rush. Wasn't this seasonal rush at least partly caused by the so-called toywar (www.toywar.com) between

Re: [OT] Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-19 Thread Perrin Harkins
Wasn't this seasonal rush at least partly caused by the so-called toywar (www.toywar.com) between eToys.com (the online retailer) and etoy.com (the art group)? There were a lot of DoS attacks (and some even uglier, nastier ones) in 1999 as a result of that. Most of that was dealt with