Distributed Downloads Are Your Friend

Today ‘cobolhacker’ explains that the answer to many of the server based challenges stems from making the move to Bittorrent.

Because I am so nice, I thought I’d post a link to PodTech to help them along with their Scoble-powered server stress test. Mind you, it doesn’t look good for a webcaster if their servers can’t take a beating like that, but hey, what do I know? Someone referred to the whole affair as the ‘Scoble-effect’, but I think ‘Scoblized‘ sounds so much hipper. Better check the load distribution on that router before yer totally Scobleized. I like that. It’s interesting that the PodTech site couldn’t take it and yet Scoble’s own blog, hosted over on Wordpress.com, continues to truck merrily along.

Well… now I’m just rambling. Anyway, this reminds me of another experience I had with a busy site the other day.

Like many in the trenches of the IT industry, I figured that I too should get me a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 so I can poke at it (I want to see if it will run on a Pentium 3 800). I personally don’t plan to run Vista, but I imagine I’ll be installing it on plenty of customer machines (smiling the whole time — I’m going to make a stupid amount of money selling RAM and video cards, hehe)…. Source: cobolhacker.com

[tags]blog,scoble,vista beta 2,distributed downloads[/tags]