"Emergency capacity" - Grin with cat attached — LiveJournal
| "Emergency capacity" | Jul. 7th, 2005 09:53 am | |
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Can't anyone run a website to cope with 'unusual loads'? BBC News went down yesterday due to the Olympic result, TFL's site is now down because "something" has happened. UPD: Given the scope of the "incident", I rescind these complaints. PS: K's fine (but had to finish her journey on foot), I'm working at home today anyway. | ||
They threw everyone off the tube, and didn't tell them why. I would have thought noone in the world can afford every late-running commuter trying to get online to check
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From:  purplerabbitsDate: July 7th, 2005 - 09:07 am (Link) |
There's this one too...
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188265,00.html
Apparently a bus has just exploded as well, kinda makes the power surge theory look a little dubious... :S
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188265,00.html
Apparently a bus has just exploded as well, kinda makes the power surge theory look a little dubious... :S
(Grin) I can point you to some of the research in the area of unusually loaded websites -- but essentially "no" (well, they could but don't). Often the loads are so vast that the network overloads even if the server can take it.
Often it's just not worth the expense to cope with the load anyway because it's a very rare event.
Often it's just not worth the expense to cope with the load anyway because it's a very rare event.
Date: July 7th, 2005 - 08:58 am (Link)