Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Can the racket-lang.org Web server(s) handle a huge spike in traffic,
such as if it got on the front page of reddit.com?
schemecookbook.org somehow got onto the front page of reddit.com
briefly, which seems to have killed schemecookbook.org. This is no big
loss, since I think schemecookbook.org gives a bad impression even when
it's working. However, I'd hate for racket-lang.org to get its
potential 15 minutes of fame, but burn out before sifting a new batch of
users out of the gazillion casual browsers.
Scheme Cookbook runs on TWiki, which is a Perl-based wiki not known for
its efficiency or performance. Among other things, the index pages are
dynamically generated by a real-time full-text regex search through the
entire site's content, which isn't the most scaling-friendly approach
imaginable.
In any case, the site has been up for a while now. Making the Apache
caching settings more aggressive took care of the problem.
Anton
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