Performance On A Shoe String
Drew McLellan, writing for the seasonal 24ways:
If you’re a big commercial enterprise like the Super Bowl, scaling up for that traffic is simply a cost of doing business. But for most of us, we can’t afford to have massive capacity sat there unused for 90% of the year. What you have to do instead is work out how to deal with as much traffic as possible with the modest resources you have.
What follows from that is decent advice for anyone who’s seen a simple spike in traffic wreak havoc on their server.
