Any technology can be setup so that it doesn't scale well, or not scale at all. This can be on PHP, dotNet, Rails, IIS, Apache, Nginx... I could go on...
One server can only handle so much. Getting linked on drudge would send so many people to a site, and depending on how that site is setup, it may be sending all those people to one server! Anyone hear of getting "slashdotted?" Same difference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect It has the same effect as a "distrubuted denial of service" attack. This happens to the best of the web. It happened to AT&T when the iPhone 4 was available for download (http://gizmodo.com/5563909/apple-iphone-4-pre+ordering-is-a-total-disaster). Same thing brought down Amazon during black friday and some other instances (http://www.betanews.com/article/Amazon-goes-down-for-the-count-twice/1213030157) Or how about killing the datacenter itself: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/rackspace_texas_truck/ Yeah, sure, blame all these on ColdFusion... btw, I'm being sarcastic :-) Look at how many servers are needed to run high-traffic servers: http://www.paragon-cs.com/wordpress/?p=144 Do you have 10,000 servers for your website? Facebook does. They need them to serve 500 million users. How about 5 CF servers that serve 48,000 concurrent users? Check that out here: http://www.cfwhisperer.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-9-and-48-000-concurrent-users Now, that one we can blame on ColdFusion! Greg Luce wrote: > down. Drudge linked to it I guess and crashed the site and they are blaming > CF. The error is HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. Isn't this an > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335814 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
