[thelist] How do I handle an anticipated overwhelming load on our server

[Warden, Matt]

On Aug 2, Rebecca Milot-Bradford had something to say about [thelist] How...

>Hi. First I want to say thanks for all the wisdom you guys dispense on a
>daily basis - I have been lurking for a couple of months and thanks to you I
>have been inspired to dive into CSS and have reworked an entire web site.
>
>Now for my question:
>
>The non-profit organization I work for has been contacted by a large
>national publication that would like to list us as a resource in an article
>they will be running. Our Marketing Director wants me to make a packet of
>info available for people to download from our web site. 
>
>The problem is, we host our site in-house on an NT server that is running
>pretty much at capacity, and we have a 256 kbs frame relay connection.
>People are talking about possibly a million visitors the day this article
>comes out. I don't think our server or our bandwidth can handle it (heck, we
>max out our bandwidth at least once a week right now). Any suggestions?

Other then host the site remotely for that time (like a month)? No.

Better do it soon, though, so the DNS stuff updates in time and all that.


Just an idea,


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mattwarden
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