The BBC have published a page containing stats on the load of their servers last Thursday, the day of the London bombings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/07July_Statistics.shtml
At peak times during the day there were 40,000 page requests per second from News
Total maximum bandwidth from bbc.co.uk reached: 11.1Gb/s (In addition to this there was up to 3Gb/sec going to Akamai for News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4663423.stm)
At around 12 noon on the 7th July, a peak bandwidth of over 11 gigabits/sec was reached. The slight disparity between the two “Max Out” values is caused the load affecting recording statistics
The previous day’s announcement of 2012 Olympics being awarded to London caused a peak of around 5 gigabits/second. The previous all time high was caused by the announcement of the Michael Jackson verdict, which used 7.2 gigabits/second
Maximum total concurrent streams: 129,000 (peak was between 2pm and 3pm) Prior to this the maximum number of concurrent streams was 74,000 streams, again on the night of The Michael Jackson announcement .
For most of the afternoon we held steady at 110,000 concurrent streams until 5.30pm/6.00pm when things started to drop off.
That’s *quite* a large load.
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