Yep, even websites can be highly non-periodic. I used to run the web services for the 50 or so magazines that Risk-Waters had at the time, and around lunch time

Yep, even websites can be highly non-periodic. I used to run the web services for the 50 or so magazines that Risk-Waters had at the time, and around lunch time was a massive peak of traffic, easily 100x our slower times. Postgres could still handle that though, IMHO :)