Re: Mars lander (Re: How to achieve application reliability)

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sun, 05 December 1999, Nathan wrote:
> Here is a great link explaining in detail the design and architecture of
> the web accelerators on the net that were designed to support the load that
> marspolarlander.com was supposed to generate.......although they have no
> feed to push....it was impressive.
>
> http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3071.html

Yes, it was very impressive.  I was hoping they would be successfull, because
in a few weeks the next event will also require some interesting web site
hosting.  If it had worked, then the people who follow could just copy it.
Even without a feed to push, the sites were unresponsive for parts of the
day.

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/140268.html

I'm very concerned we still haven't proven we know how to handle big event
sites on the Internet.