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09/15/2001 Archived Entry: "15-September-2001 -- The Internet is now a dominant tool for regular people"

Handling the Loads (Slashdot) -- "Let me explain: most people (around 60-70%) view the same content. They read the homepage and the 15 or so stories on the homepage. And they never mess with thresholds and filters and logins. In fact, when we have technical problems, we serve static pages. They don't require any database load, and the apache processes use very little memory. So for the next few hours, we ran with 4 of our boxes serving dynamic pages, and 2 serving static." (Comments: I first heard about this simple technique when I read John Udell's Practical Internet Groupware.)

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