Open Tech Calendar

This month, we have a talk by Kenny Coyle, of STV, on how to serve web content under pressure.

Running a Web Server in a modern environment:

Over the past few years, it has become much simpler to run and maintain your own Web Server. What happens however, when a piece of content that you are hosting suddenly becomes extremely popular?

In this talk, we will demo a basic web server installation, running on a Raspberry Pi, hosting a simple piece of content. We will then perform a load test that will inevitably break this installation and make the system very unresponsive.

We will then continue to go over setting up the various infrastructure elements that will allow our system to withstand such a heavy load of traffic and continue to operate (and be responsive).