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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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Brace yourselves:
You’ve been slashdotted!
Pros: excellent exposure to potentially interested readers
Cons: sudden huge demand for the pdf’s will overload your server for a couple
of days
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Well, whoever the retard was who posted that link should be shot. I’m
personally going to go and hunt him down. That and the dumbkoff who karma
whored direct links in a followup comment. I’m going to hunt that person down
too and shoot him second. :)
On the other hand, I now can say I’ve personally found out what a heavy traffic
load is like from the inside: I was logged onto Peach while it happened today.
The disk was so busy, it took a minute to rename the brickjournal directory.
But remarkably it was handling the load really well. There were a lot of active
connections but apache was threading properly and pfiles were doing okay. I
pulled the plug about an hour in. The major concern for me was the University’s
network operations center raising a red flag, which they’ve done on
Brickfest/Brickcast broadcasts, fearing hacker attacks.
This was the impact of the link being posted to Slashdot...you can see the huge
peak around 3-4PM as throngs of bored geeks started downloading the PDF.
http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/im/jsp/IMrmonIf.jsp?dev=mech&iid=115&title=Mechanical%20Engineering
Calum
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On 24-Jun-05, at 11:05 PM, Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
> > Brace yourselves:
> >
> > You've been
> > <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/1851223&from=rss
> > slashdotted>!
>
> Well, whoever the retard was who posted that link should be shot. I'm
> personally going to go and hunt him down. That and the dumbkoff who
> karma
> whored direct links in a followup comment. I'm going to hunt that
> person down
> too and shoot him second. :)
The first thing I thought when I saw this article on Slashdot is were
is the torrent. I mean isn't this the situation the Bittorrent is
designed to solve?
Derek
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:31:47PM +0000, Derek Raycraft wrote:
> The first thing I thought when I saw this article on Slashdot is were
> is the torrent. I mean isn't this the situation the Bittorrent is
> designed to solve?
Yup. I'm not sure how well it'll work for a file this small, but it is
exactly what it was designed for.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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