Hey, I've gotten curious on this sort of web-related stuff with this Computer Networking course I'm taking at university.
Back in 2008, the Hive's server was having problems and I think I remember you saying someone was hitting the Hive with too many connections. I always thought that was my fault because I sometimes opened like 3 to 5 tabs at once. Now I believe I actually was responsible
Firefox is configured to open like 8 parallel connections at once, no? That's 40 connections hitting the Hive at worst
Does your server use traditional process forking, thread creation or just a limited pool or threads?