On Tue, 4 May 1999, Taral wrote:
> 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.
>
multiple machines is a problem, ironically this will be the beta of our
high-availability cluster webserver, our server is currently colocated in
utah and we have no power to add machines or swap them out, the guy in
utah is our graphic designer and knows, well, very little about linux to
put it lightly ;p in about a week we'll be moving into our new offices,
where we'll have a 45Mbit connection to the net and a cluster of
high-performance servers, etc.. in fact right now we have a cluster of
high-performance servers, but only a T-1 connection.. the bandiwdth is in
utah, the power is in oakland ;p
there is little.. well.. nothing, that we can do about this right now.. we
can put the stuff on the servers in oakland but then we are limited to a
T-1's bandwidth, which do you think is more important? our image will be
better protected by the T-1, b/c that won't fail, but it will be
congested.. also, it will be down when we move, which is a bad bad thing..
but maybe we could coordinate something and point the address of the
cluster to the utah server after we move.. i don't know, I'm trying to
help coordinate this, and I'm going to be setting up the script that will
display the license, ask for info, and then allow the file to be
downloaded.. I was going to do it in perl but If I can do it in C that
will definitely help the server load..
I don't know I don't know ;p this is frustrating..
-Justin
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