at Monday, October 21, 2002 3:14 PM, Trei, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: > I'd be nervous about a availability with centralized servers, > even if they are "triple redundant with two sites". DDOS > attacks, infrastructure (backhoe) attacks, etc, could all > wreck havoc. Indeed so, yes. I suspect (if it ever takes off) that they will have to scale their server setup in pace with the demand, but to be honest I think 600/sec is probably quite a high load for actual payments - we aren't talking logins or web queries, but actual real-money-payment requests. I suspect that, if it became the dominant payment method for amazon or ebay, they would need a much more hefty server, but at this stage I suspect a heavy load would be two auths per second :)
