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Daily Kos election day load spike and measures to handle it.



During the election the dailykos usage obviously would spike pretty high and this was posted after the spike.

The following post is about the system and some of the things he did to handle the load.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/8/161641/544

Looks like their still recovering. He mentioned one of the things they had to do is switch to a simpler less feature laden template so the home page looks a bit sparse compared to its normal look.


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