James Farrar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:29:27 +0000, Mystery Flyer
wrote:
wrote:
The TFL website had difficulties updating due to the volume of hits or
the amount of changes being made, not sure which.
Both of which would have been acceptable in 1994 at the dawn of the
Internet but really arent acceptable excuses in 2007
Internet traffic is liable to grow faster than the infrastructure can
cope with it, in the same way that motor vehicle traffic has proven to
grow faster than the infrastructure can cope with it.
Buying hardware and bandwidth for your portal to cope with spikes in
demand is a well understood aspect of the provision of Internet based
services.
Its an entirely different case to the whole demand growing over time
beyond what the infrastructure can cope with.
mysteryflyer