[115684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Sun Jul 5 07:33:47 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:32:48 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
[snow day notifications]
> Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news means
> it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying
> more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half hour
> event.
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.
- Matt
