A number of large blogs are reporting that their sites are crashing when viewed in Internet Explorer, and are attributing the problem to code from The Internet metrics service SiteMeter.
Finding the right way to acknowledge and manage downtime can be crucial to maintaining the confidence of your users, according to companies that have weathered outages.
For growing web sites, a sudden burst of enormous web traffic is almost always accompanied by learning experiences. Here are some examples of sudden success that led to scalability challenges.
How much of scalability is architecture, and how much is throwing servers at the problem? Feedback from engineers at Facebook, Meebo, Slide and Flickr.