Flash crowds and network management

Mon Sep 14 18:33:44 UTC 1998

bicknell at dimension.NET (Leo Bicknell) writes:
>	That's 5600 hits a second, for those who don't want to 
>fire up bc.  Not bad.

Some government servers were seeing over 10,000 hits per second
at the peak, about double CNN's load.

So does anyone have any practical/technical advise on how the
government sites could have done better.  Be carefull about
following IBM's webhosting manager J.D. Zeeman's example of
foot-in-mouth problem when he said "I doubt they are scalable
to the extent of the ones we have."  LOC's servers were made
by IBM.
-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation