[26132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mars lander (Re: How to achieve application reliability)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Dec 5 18:05:24 1999
Date: 5 Dec 1999 15:04:01 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Sun, 05 December 1999, Nathan wrote:
> Here is a great link explaining in detail the design and architecture of
> the web accelerators on the net that were designed to support the load that
> marspolarlander.com was supposed to generate.......although they have no
> feed to push....it was impressive.
>
> http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3071.html
Yes, it was very impressive. I was hoping they would be successfull, because
in a few weeks the next event will also require some interesting web site
hosting. If it had worked, then the people who follow could just copy it.
Even without a feed to push, the sites were unresponsive for parts of the
day.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/140268.html
I'm very concerned we still haven't proven we know how to handle big event
sites on the Internet.
