[Worldforge-all-lists] Re: [WF-Infra] Acorn release on slashdot

[David M. <dav...@wa...>]

Chris, I signed up to help with the World Forge Site but I never could
figure out how to get anywhere. How can I stop getting all these messages
now. I have decided not to participate. Thanks, DM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Lappe" <ti...@pe...>
To: <in...@ma...>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [WF-Infra] Acorn release on slashdot


>
>
> The machine Web runs on will likely not become unstable from a slashdot.
> The problem is we'll run out of bandwidth. Web is currently running on a
> 384k/s down and 384k/s Up DSL line. Which is more then enough bandwidth
> for normal usage.  Last time I did bandwidth statistics the web hits were
> around 10k/s. So we might be able to survive a slasdhot effect and not
> absolutely saturate my bandwidth. It depends on how many people are
> interested in Worldforge.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 07:27:40PM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:27:40 +0100
> > From: Alistair Riddoch <aj...@ec...>
> > To: in...@wo...
> > Subject: [WF-Infra] Acorn release on slashdot
> >
> > After carefully evaluating the technical capabilities of Acorn and its
> > current broad appeal, looking at the current status of infrastructure,
and
> > discussing the issue on irc, I have come to the conclusion that the time
> > is not not right for announcing 0.2 on slashdot.
> >
> > Leaving game aspects of this to once side, I have come here to bring up
the
> > subject of the ways in which i feel infrastructure is not ready for this
> > kind of attention, and hopefully open a discusion on what we can do to
> > be ready for such an announcement.
> >
> > 1) WEB
> >
> > It is currently my impression that our web server would quickly become
unusable
> > under the sort of load that the slashdot effect would place on it, which
would
> > not give a favourable impression of the project. Given that it is
unlikely
> > that we will be able to find a bulletproof high bandwidth web server, we
> > may have to look at other ways to deal with this load. One possibility
that
> > has come to me would be to place a subset of static pages with essential
> > details on worldforge.sourceforge.net, which would mean that
sourceforges
> > considerable resources would bear the brunt of the slashdot effect.
>
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