Don’t forget - at the time, even if you were pulling a static file, you were pulling it from disk. And disk was much slower… IDE was still common. If you had a good server, it could have been SCSI, but a white label Linux box could be quite slow. So, unless you had a good caching setup, you could still have issues sending even static data.
Also, when slashdotting was common, networks weren’t always the most robust. It wasn’t uncommon in the late 90’s for companies to have a single a T1 line for access to the internet. So, unless you had a good, well peered network provider, that was another potential bottleneck.
We worked with what we had. Thankfully, everything is more robust now.
Also, when slashdotting was common, networks weren’t always the most robust. It wasn’t uncommon in the late 90’s for companies to have a single a T1 line for access to the internet. So, unless you had a good, well peered network provider, that was another potential bottleneck.
We worked with what we had. Thankfully, everything is more robust now.