The other week, the folks at Boing Boing linked to this guy’s website and in no time, he had to take the site down and put up a placeholder like the one below:
Glenn Feron – The Art of Retouching:
Welcome to GlennFeron.com. Due to overwhelming traffic to this site, I’m
rethinking how to best show my work without going over my host’s traffic limits.
Given the draw was the images he had online as opposed to a more text-y site like this one, how much traffic does it take to capsize a site? I’m sure it varies by provider as well (how well-connected they are to peering points and larger pipes, how responsive they are to spikes vs real increases, and generally how agreeable they are).
I wonder if Akamai is missing an opportunity here . . .