A few days ago, I was featured on Apple’s download site and have received a huge torrent of download requests (for FuzzMeasure, anyway).
The ‘killing’ part happened last night, when Apache just stopped accepting HTTP connections. After some investigation, it turns out I had to increase Apache’s MaxClients setting from 20 to 50 to handle the increased load. There were so many people downloading at the same time that Apache wouldn’t let anyone else into my site!
<apachenerd>I should probably also investigate switching from prefork back to worker, but I’m pretty sure something I have running on the server requires me to use prefork.</apachenerd>
So far, the number of downloads since being featured has passed 8500, and it’s rising like crazy. I’m so grateful for being featured, as it’s obviously helping to get FuzzMeasure in the hands of so many new users!
January 10th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Congrats, Chris! It’s great to see FuzzMeasure getting the recognition it deserves.
Have you considered using something like Amazon S3 to host your binaries? We use S3 for several of our clients and have found it to be a great way to get reliable and scalable file hosting for cheap.
January 11th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Haven’t really looked into S3 yet, but I’m certainly thinking about it. Thanks!