[AusNOG] Anyone else notice the click frenzy traffic

[Matthew VK3EVL]

That didn't take long, this clip has been used for so many things

On 20/11/2012 9:59 PM, Roddy Strachan wrote:
> Hitler isn't happy.
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> On 20/11/2012, at 21:53, "Sean K. Finn" <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au 
> <mailto:sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>> wrote:
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>> Did anyone consider CDN for pics? Srsly,even 250,000 people hitting 
>> at 10kbps is 2,500,000,000 bps or 2.5Gbps. 10kbps might only barely 
>> suffice for static HTML at that rate.
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>> An apache web server starts to struggle at 500 SIMULTANEOUS requests, 
>> meaning 250,000 visitors would need to be load balanced across 500 
>> server instances, assuming your LBs can handle that amount of 
>> sessions, keep track of the backend servers, which likely multiplies 
>> the traffic to double the request amount, and that is just to ensure 
>> a 10kbps experience without any pictures, and static HTML/js.
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>> 500 servers running any type of PHP or ASP or god forbid anything 
>> Java and forget it.
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>> CLICK CLICK BOOM
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>> More than likely Telstra and Optus saturated someone's interconnects, 
>> there's not too many people with lazy gig links hanging spare about 
>> the place.
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>> S.
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>> On 20/11/2012, at 8:02 PM, "Joshua D'Alton" <joshua at railgun.com.au 
>> <mailto:joshua at railgun.com.au>> wrote:
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>>> Indeed, even something as simple as cloudflare can turn a fail-site 
>>> into a world-class one with a few clicks. Obviously not the case for 
>>> every site, but even just the caching provided that reduces network 
>>> utilisation (which I believe is what is the cause of this outage).
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