Heh, at a previous job, I ran the webserver crap and network for  
bmwusa.com.  So, some of the creative people decide it would be a good  
idea to make this 1MB flash game for the last Bond movie, and then  
proceed to email all of the people signed up to receive newletters  
telling them about it.

In any case, they forgot to mention it to me so I could tell them it  
was a bad idea, and I came into working finding 4 T1's completely maxed  
out.

During the sept 11th thing, I worked for a large media site (probably  
the only one that actually stayed up all day).  We pumped out over  
500Mbit/sec of traffic all day long, and that's not including the  
several hundred Mbit/sec of video through Akamai.  All of our pages had  
all ads and almost all images removed too, so that +500Mbit/sec of  
traffic was almost entirely text.

Jay

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 10:16  AM, Nate Carlson wrote:

> I told Jima I'd post something once the /.'d to my web site was over,  
> so
> here it is. For those of you that are curious, here's what a  
> slashdotting
> looks like from MRTG's perspective:
>
> http://www.natecarlson.com/~natecars/switch1-17.real-time.com.17- 
> day.gif
>
> Amusing, eh?  :)
>
> (We pulled through it just fine.. probably had a lot to do with the  
> fact
> that the page was only ~12k total.)
>
> Oh, total hits on my web server yesterday: 122,487. That includes the  
> CSS,
> image, etc.. there were 18,592 hits to the actual page that got /.'d.
> Considering I usually get an average of 3,788 hits per day to this  
> site,
> this is a lot of traffic.  :)
>
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