3 ms·

If you're hitting a single box, this seems perfectly possible - especially if the server or the network is poorly configured. This is what CDNs are for.

• dsfyu404ed 9y ago
  This isn't Joe's blog running from a desktop found in a dumpster. It's a university with actual infrastructure. They should be able to handle this. Registration is probably more load. A 72MB file being served 500,000 times over a 24hr period is 3-4Gb/sec. The department probably has one or more web servers serving content off a network drive. Your average "rack of network storage" won't even blink at that. There was probably a gigabit switch somewhere or that was being a bottleneck or the web server was simply misconfigured for this task.
  • lstyls 9y ago
    +1, thanks for the correction. Apparently I have a skewed perspective only working on web at big corporate joints.