[chat] Re: [SLUG] Bandwith problems or server load

[Steve Kowalik <stevenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 12:08:42AM +1000, Jeff Waugh uttered:
> Slashdot had an article up about what they did to handle the load, one stat
> being 40 pageviews per second. CNN's server was undoubtedly getting a
> shitload more than that, so you can imagine that before they switched to a
> static page, the effort required to create and feed each connection would
> have been pretty ginormous, even if most of the processing was done on
> backend machines.
> 
Server? _One_ _single_ webserver? Who uses that anymore? :-)

steven@broken:~/debian$ host www.cnn.com
www.cnn.com             CNAME   cnn.com
cnn.com                 A       64.12.50.217
cnn.com                 A       207.25.71.23
cnn.com                 A       207.25.71.25
cnn.com                 A       207.25.71.27
cnn.com                 A       207.25.71.29
cnn.com                 A       64.12.50.153
cnn.com                 A       64.12.50.249
cnn.com                 A       64.12.48.217
cnn.com                 A       64.12.48.249
cnn.com                 A       64.12.50.121
cnn.com                 A       207.25.71.5

There, 11 of them. And all of them would have been as hard hit as the other.
The Slashdot effect taken to the next level.

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                                                    Steve
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