henric,
i agree with barry and dale:
1. you need to find out the source of these requests. if they are a DoS
attack, then you should implement a DoS filter to avoid such traffic hitting
your app:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/dos.html
2. you need to implement warmup
Last night we had a sudden traffic spike at 21:00 (CET). Requests were at a
steady 40 req/s when we suddenly had more than 400 req/s. This led to our
application being almost entirely down for about 10-15 minutes. I think that
it’s because many new app instances are being fired up at the
Have you actually investigated the source of the spike?
And what exactly the errors where - ie looking the logs, rather than just
the number of errors?
For example it could of been a script scanning for vulnerablities (such as
searching for all the folders phpmyadmin could be installed in) - and
