5 Jul
2009
5 Jul
'09
9:19 a.m.
In article <20090705113248.GP1499@hezmatt.org>, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> writes
There are web hosting providers whose 18c/year hosting plans can't handle a few thousand requests to a static page over a period of maybe 15 minutes without falling over? The mind boggles.
Apparently so. Of course, they could be deliberately throttled, rather than run on inherently low-bandwidth kit. Which raises the issue of whether such throttling schemes should take account of short bursts. -- Roland Perry