Using twitter as an outage notification
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Sun Jul 5 13:19:20 UTC 2009
In article <20090705113248.GP1499 at hezmatt.org>, Matthew Palmer
<mpalmer at hezmatt.org> writes
>There are web hosting providers whose 18c/year hosting plans can't handle a
>few thousand requests to a static page over a period of maybe 15 minutes
>without falling over? The mind boggles.
Apparently so. Of course, they could be deliberately throttled, rather
than run on inherently low-bandwidth kit. Which raises the issue of
whether such throttling schemes should take account of short bursts.
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Roland Perry
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