On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote: [snow day notifications] > Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news means > it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying > more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half hour > event.
There are web hosting providers whose 18c/year hosting plans can't handle a few thousand requests to a static page over a period of maybe 15 minutes without falling over? The mind boggles. - Matt