Search for "slashdot effect" on slashdot. There are people who have
collected hit statistics. Basically, if the peak is x hits/second, you
want to be able to serve 120*x kB/s in bandwidth, and if x exceeds 1000,
you will want to look at using multiple machines to serve this stuff.
Taral
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Justin Ryan [PHT] wrote:
> guys: I have a feeling that the pht website is going to be experiencing
> the slashdot effect, and very soon (end of this week maybe) what will
> ensue is probably going to be *most* people who visit filling out a form
> where the results are written to a flat file database, or e-mailed to a
> pht employee, and then they grab a file that is approx. 120k.. what kind
> of server do you guys think it would take to handle that kind of requests,
> under the load that being slashdotted will put us ;p
>
> I don't think bandwidth will be a problem, espescially with such a small
> download, but I don't want our servers to buckle :(
>
> -Justin
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