Web Counter

• The web counter system maintains a count of the number of unique computers who have accessed our site. If you have a computer at home and one at work (or 2 at home and 4 at work in my case!) then each one will register a hit count just once. Our hit counter is registering beyond our membership because it is posted to search engines and linked to other web sites.

• Technically (for the geeks) the system employs specialized threaded servers which have been written for the task. The system consists of three separate servers which take care of HTTP requests, database manipulations, and real-time image generation. The servers are completely processor and network I/O bound and are able to handle at least 70 requests per second on a 60Mhz BSD/OS Pentium running BSD/OS while incurring no disk overhead. This is provided by