[19471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Flash crowds and network management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Sep 14 14:54:26 1998
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:33:44 CDT."
<980914133344.e471@SDG.DRA.COM>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:48:49 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Sean Donelan writes:
> 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.
Using fast-cgi and such helps a bunch. Of course, for all I know, they
did that already.
Perry
