The novel 'COVID-19' coronavirus is affecting businesses and organizations is many ways. Whether they affect them in a good or bad ways, they can sometimes disrupt things.
The Internet Archive has stood up against time, and memorialize many parts of the internet for research and leisure purposes.
And for that long time, it has been the invaluable resource for understanding the internet.
In 2019, its usage was 30Gbits/sec. And at the start of 2020, it was experiencing 40Gbits/sec usage. It was still capable of handling the traffic, even with 13 petabytes of downloads per month,
From users listening to its collections of 78 RPMs, browsing its digitized books, streaming from the TV archive, and so forth, The Internet Archive with its Wayback Machine has served millions of users to materials they want during that time.
"We were about the 250th most popular website according to Alexa Internet," said The Internet Archive.
However, when the coronavirus started to hit and spread, the demand to its website skyrocketed to 50Gbits/sec, a number if never previously experienced
With almost twice the usage, the traffic was beyond its network infrastructure’s ability to handle, wrote the Archive on its blog post.
"So much so, our network statistics probes had difficulty collecting data (hence the white spots in the graphs)."
To handle this surge of traffic, The Internet Archive by Brewster Kahle purchased a second router with new line cards, and got it installed and running.
This boosted its capacity from 47Gbits/sec peak to 62Gbits/sec peak.
"Alexa Internet now says we are about the 160th most popular website."
"So now we are looking at the next steps up, which will take more equipment and is more wizardry, but we are working on it."