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Tuesday, 25 March, 2008

Gearing Up For April Fools Day
(with comments)

April 1 is the biggest day of the year at the Museum of Hoaxes.

April 1st is approaching, which means that the Museum will probably experience its annual surge of traffic that results in pages loading incredibly slowly or not at all. I'm going to do whatever possible to stop the site from crashing on April 1st, though I'm not sure how much I can really do.

Here's the Alexa chart for the site. Can you tell where April starts?

There wasn't much of a spike in 2002. I wonder what those other, smaller, spikes correspond to? Maybe Alex will see this post and explain.


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  1. By Dan. Comment posted 25-Mar-2008 @04:26pm:
    It occurs to me that a competent hosting service should be able to handle this type of situation. If you let them know ahead of time that you expect X volume for a specific period, they should be able to route the correct resources your way.

    If you sign up for an annual, volume-based service, and tell the hoster that 80% of that volume will happen during a 7-day period, I would expect the host service to deal with the problem. Isn't this a good reason to use VMware?

    If he's hosting on his own system, then he could still use VMware, and rent a couple massive servers for the busy period to help handle the load. It's probably too late to set this up for this year, but next year....

    Hopefully the increased hits will translate to ad revenue, it would suck to not take advantage of this type of annual windfall.
  2. By . Comment posted 25-Mar-2008 @04:43pm:
    Coincidentally, the Museum of Hoaxes uses the same hosting service as I do: http://www.enginehosting.com/

    I've always been impressed with how they handle activity spikes.
  3. By Moon. Comment posted 25-Mar-2008 @05:18pm:
    Pity the poor zoos! "Is Ellie Fant there?"

    :)
  4. By . Comment posted 26-Mar-2008 @04:23am:
    The Museum is one of the two blogs I follow(guess which the other one is). Drop him an e-mail, ask him to explain. His E-mail is listed on the front page. :)

    T.
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