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[email protected] (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
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