[racket-dev] can racket-lang.org survive a slashdotting?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 1 17:59:11 EDT 2010

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Aug  1, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>> Can the racket-lang.org Web server(s) handle a huge spike in
>> traffic, such as if it got on the front page of reddit.com?
>
> I don't have any concrete idea, but it's running on an old but still
> reasonable machine (Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 3gb ram) via apache.
> It's doing a bunch of additional things, but nothing is intense enough
> to cause any problems.

That sounds like a "no" to me ....

Robby


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