Here is another example as how depending on the content of the site, curiosity among the users just might crash your site.1940 Census data was made publicly available and interest in this data caused the site to crash under load.
The fix for this crash was ‘The fix involved adding more servers and increasing their capacity’. It becomes sometimes really hard to understand people’s behavior and their interest. Did we ever think that 70 years old data might generate so much traffic ?
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