Nick Triantos wrote:
Just an FYI.. I only have ~130 users on my intranet MW install. I made an article that I thought would be useful, so I emailed it out to a wide audience, and ended up slashdotting my own wiki server. I didn't get that many hits, I don't think, but each one was trying to render that same page, and it ended up filling memory and the paging file. I installed Squid shortly after that.
Squid is great for the slashdot effect. If all the requests are for a small set of pages (fitting in RAM), a single low-end server running squid can fill a 100 Mbps link. As long as your upstream network can handle that bandwidth, you can keep a very large flash crowd happy.
-- Tim Starling