Mozilla Servers Handling 15 Gigabits/sec in Firefox Mania

· by · News

The Mozilla Developer Center said on Wednesday that their servers are handling 2 Gbps in general HTTP traffic in addition to 13 Gbps in download traffic related to Tuesdayis release of Firefox 3.0.

Downloads were reported at 14,000 per minute. If that rate had been sustained since yesterdayis release, that would amount to over 20 million downloads so far. However, Mozilla estimated conservatively that there were 7.5 to 7.7 million downloads on the first day not including FTP downloads. That number might have been larger except for server overloading in the early hours.

Firefox 3 is a free download, about 18 megabytes. The download page includes a video tour.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

Sign Up for the Newsletter

Enter a valid email address

Join the TMO Express Daily Newsletter to get the latest Mac headlines in your e-mail every weekday.

Adding to list…

No Comments

Add your comment

Commenting is not available in this channel entry.