Re: FN-FORUM OT BB.

date posted 17th July 2001 23:53

We built the site a year ago, and were following a healthy expansion
until the client made this deal with BB at short notice. Now all the dynamic content
is automatically re-generated every hour and stored as a vast number
of static files, then served up using thttpd - but we are still pushing
what a single web server can manage - particularly as we have to deal with
e-commerce customers as well as BB browsers.


On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:14:00PM +0100, Derek Clarke wrote:
> How many were you expecting when you originally sized the job?
>
> [EMAIL REMOVED] (Chris Allen) wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:15:55PM +0100, Paul Cooklin (egroups) wrote:
> > > Damn! OZ BB sounds better than the UK one, we're lucky to get a coy
> > > flirtation from one of the gang, and then it's censored. That's it,
> > I'm getting cable ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > Well the UK one certainly has a following. We are handling the still
> > photos
> > for BB, and our site traffic jumped from 50,000 hits per day to over
> > 750,000
> > hits per day from the time that we started. It has been a nightmare
> > trying
> > to serve dynamic content at this rate - we are sometimes getting as many
> > as 10,000 hits in a five minute period!
> >
> >