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Originally Posted by DareDad
They're on Azure, or at least the FRC API is and it should be possible for them to scale up massively on Saturday morning if they want to. It could be the plan is to release the manual on Saturday morning without pre-releasing an encrypted version.
If it were me, I'd put all the documents on a "dumb" cloud web server (no .NET, no PHP, just an HTTP file server so it's got low CPU draw) and then that could be replicated and instantiated as many times as they need to, to cover the bandwidth needs. They could have 50 instances on Saturday and then cut it down to 5 on Monday.
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The better way to do this is use the Azure CDN Service:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cdn/
No setting up of instances needed or writing custom automation for interfacing with load balancers. Let MS do all of that stuff for you.
Source: Am IT architect specializing in cloudy non-sense.