Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

In article <20090705113248.GP1499 () hezmatt org>, Matthew Palmer 
<mpalmer () hezmatt org> writes
> There are web hosting providers whose 18c/year hosting plans can't handle a
> few thousand requests to a static page over a period of maybe 15 minutes
> without falling over?  The mind boggles.

Apparently so. Of course, they could be deliberately throttled, rather 
than run on inherently low-bandwidth kit. Which raises the issue of 
whether such throttling schemes should take account of short bursts.
--
Roland Perry