115 Million page views a day

[Nick F]

Thought that this was quite impressive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4672869.stm

Just a shame about why it happened.

Visits to the BBC News website soared last week as people went online to find out more about the bomb attacks in London.
The site had a record estimated 115 million page views, more than five times the average daily figure.

[tiggerai]

Ouch!

[Aaron]

That's a lot of bandwidth!

[MD]

yeah they were pulling 1.7GB a second at points of it... :O

m@

[Stoo]

well over a gigabit per second at the peak of it apparently..

Luckily Akamai took most of it after the first traffic spike.

[Spunkey]

At the peak, about lunchtime on Thursday, we were dealing with 10 times the normal level of activity - about 40,000 hits per second.

Thats go to be a mofo of a server/cluster.

I wonder how many hits/sec Google gets

[XA04]

Yeah saw this earlier, ouch.

[Yohji]

That's a lot of bandwidth!

Crazy..

[Pirate Pete]

bugger me

[ajbrun]

bugger me

and me too.

[scotty6435]

Sorry, not that way inclined, boys.

Still, taht's damn impressive. Now I realise why google is pretty image sparce.

[blueprint]

i have to say, i went on there too when i found out about the bombs.

I go on there regularly. Its massive, the BBC News site. You cna even watch the last episode of Newsnight....(im not sad)