Re: Flash crowds and network management

Sean Donelan writes:

So does anyone have any practical/technical advise on how the government sites could have done better. Be carefull about following IBM's webhosting manager J.D. Zeeman's example of foot-in-mouth problem when he said "I doubt they are scalable to the extent of the ones we have." LOC's servers were made by IBM.

Using fast-cgi and such helps a bunch. Of course, for all I know, they did that already. Perry