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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