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I don't think a slashdotting is what it used to be, both in the number of users, and in the amount of bandwidth available to the site getting slashdotted.
by psadauskas 17y ago
I don't think a slashdotting is what it used to be, both in the number of users, and in the amount of bandwidth available to the site getting slashdotted.
- blhack 17y agoAgreed. I am not a programmer by any stretch of even my own imagination, but I do have a website that kindof sortof seems to work. I've had things make it to the front page of here, and slashdot and was extremely surprised that it didn't just crash my machine (it's slicehost's cheapest VPS). This was weird to me because I grew up around fark and slashdot hearing stories about servers going down almost immediately after being posted. I think that those days might actually be gone.
- vidarh 17y agoIt's always been a case of severely underpowered hosts. I've gotten slashdotted several times, and frankly it's not that much traffic (anymore, anyway) The biggest problem seemed to be sites running on hosts with far too little memory, far too low maximum number of Apache (or whatever) processes, or mismatched maximum number of Apache processes and database connections. Though I'm sure there's at least an order of magnitude difference depending on the post.
- m_eiman 17y agoIt's more often a problem of running our of server side resources than bandwidth (if your blog software isn't configured to survive a lot of users, you're going to run out of RAM and CPU long before you run out of bandwidth).