From: Thomas D. Wilkinson
Date: July 12 1999 12:04pm
Subject: surviving the Slashdot effect
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I'm working on a database project that is rather large scale and I am
trying to avoid using Oracle because of the added cost to clients.  It
is intended to be connected to the web for e-commerce.  My biggest fear,
though is that I may be Slashdotted (This means being mentioned on a
high traffic web site; this is good if the tools I use can handle it,
embarrasing and costly if they can't).

Has anybody ever had any experiences like this?  Has MySQL been able to
survive a million (gives me a margin of safety) hits in one day (The
hardware will be appropriate -- is the software?)?

Thanks

- Thomas

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