[27002] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Superbowl success?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Fri Feb 4 05:48:27 2000
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 02:45:35 -0800
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> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Sean Donelan
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:11 AM
> Are folks getting better at predicting advertising generated
> traffic? Or are people just massively over-provising their
> web sites, and praying?
Take your most optimistic estimate, over-build by a factor of two and make
damned sure that your inbound pipe can only tap 63% of your total site
capacity. It might get slow in spots, but it won't crash.<grin>
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