On 14/8/06 14:02, "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13-Aug-06, at 10:14 PM, S. Woodside wrote: > >> On Aug 13, 2006, at 7:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hi Simon, >>> >>>> Oh and if you haven't already seen it in operation, visit my site >>>> below or http://semacode.org >>> >>> I was checking out semacode (cool software btw) the other day & >>> noticed you had >>> a post on being "/.'d" was it the sheer number of hits on the >>> server swamping >>> the server or AxKit not being able to serve the results? (or >>> something else). >> >> Well, I mean, it was linked to by slashdot. The site stayed up no >> problem, actually... > > FWIW there have been other AxKit sites that survived slashdotting - > Opera's site and Linux From Scratch have both been hit by direct > slashdottings if my memory serves me correct. > > AxKit1's cache delivery pretty much meant it could withstand anything Just to back that up further, our AxKit based site serves in excess of 6M+ page impressions a month, I'd be lying if I said we didn't spread the load over more than one server but we've never found AxKit to hold anything back. > serving up raw HTML pages could withstand. I'm hoping we can do > similar coolness with AxKit2, only scale much better using async IO. > > Matt. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cheers, Stuart. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
