[development] One core, many distributions

[Dan Robinson]

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>>the throttle.module is only interesting and usable by
>>high-traffic sites like kerneltrap.org and/or
>>drupal.org-a-like sites. IMO it's too much for core,
>>because there are lot's of people who use drupal for their
>>own personal site and small business sites. the
>>throttle.module is a little bit of an overkill for sites
>>like that.
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>The throttle is useful to sites that have limited resources
>and usually are not that busy.  It is actually less useful to
>consistently high-traffic sites, as by necessity they will
>already have the required infrastructure to survive high
>loads.
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>The throttle works well for a website that's on a shared
>host with limited CPU and bandwidth, that usually only gets a
>handful of visitors, and then is suddenly Slashdotted.  Of
>course, it will only help in that case if it has been enabled
>and properly configured.
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This is exactly the kind of information that would be useful to people. 
A description of what the module does, who it is for and an endorsement
of it's quality.   I wonder if we could start a book about this somewhere.

>Cheers,
> -Jeremy
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