[115692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jul 5 09:21:14 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:19:20 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090705113248.GP1499@hezmatt.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <20090705113248.GP1499@hezmatt.org>, Matthew Palmer
<mpalmer@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.
--
Roland Perry
