[racket-dev] can racket-lang.org survive a slashdotting?
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?
>
> schemecookbook.org somehow got onto the front page of reddit.com
> briefly, which seems to have killed schemecookbook.org. This is no big
> loss, since I think schemecookbook.org gives a bad impression even when
> it's working. However, I'd hate for racket-lang.org to get its
> potential 15 minutes of fame, but burn out before sifting a new batch of
> users out of the gazillion casual browsers.
Scheme Cookbook runs on TWiki, which is a Perl-based wiki not known for
its efficiency or performance. Among other things, the index pages are
dynamically generated by a real-time full-text regex search through the
entire site's content, which isn't the most scaling-friendly approach
imaginable.
In any case, the site has been up for a while now. Making the Apache
caching settings more aggressive took care of the problem.
Anton