<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi All</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Newspapers this morning report that the e-petitions site crashed on launch, due to high volume (1,000 visitors a minute registering proposals) . Just wondering if it would be worth while investigating this further as to why this happened and how to avoid something like this happening in future RoR projects. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>What's the best to test a site for high volume?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers</span></div><div> </div><div><i>James Cumming, CFA</i><br></div><br></div></body></html>