In article <20090705113248.gp1...@hezmatt.org>, Matthew Palmer
<mpal...@hezmatt.org> writes
There are web hosting providers whose 18c/year hosting plans can't handle a
few thousand requests to a static page over a period of maybe 15 minutes
without falling over? The mind boggles.
Apparently so. Of course, they could be deliberately throttled, rather
than run on inherently low-bandwidth kit. Which raises the issue of
whether such throttling schemes should take account of short bursts.
--
Roland Perry
