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Researching the Slashdot Effect?

Posted by Cliff on from the oops-we-did-it-again dept.

leonia asks: "At Columbia University, we are investigating methods and software to automatically deal with sudden, unpredictable load spikes ala the 'Slashdot effect'. We are looking for web sites that have been the 'victim' of this effect who would be willing to share anonymized web logs with us. If you know of a site that went under after it was mentioned on Slashdot or similar site or are the proud owner of such a site, we'd love to talk to you."

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  1. Re:naive Question? by MattCohn.com · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Same reason as CNN and such sites arn't when linked to. Multiple, dedicated servers and more bandwidth then they know what to do with. (So they made slashdot)

  2. Re:naive Question? by rcs2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when's the last time you saw Slashdot personally serve a page full of casemod pics or a 12mb MPEG of sodium skipping across a lake?

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  3. Looking for people who have been slashdotted? by gnovos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Allow me to introduce you to the Archives.

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  4. Sept 11, 2001 by erpbridge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would think that a lot of the major news sites like CNN and MSNBC, as well as Slashdot itself, would have some info as to how they held up on Sept 11, 2001. If anything was a Slashdot effect, that day was. (BTW, Slashdot seems to have been the site that best withstood the increased traffic that day... the other major ones crumbled.)

    That said, people have written about the same thing, researching the Slashdot effect on their own sites, and posted logs here on Slashdot. I'm too lazy right now, but you may want to search the archives for some info.