Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test!

We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.

Comments

You have to admit...

[Bobulusman]

What better way to field test a server than to give every /. member 30 points and watch them waste several hours loading and reloading to mod!! Not to mention all the people who only read occasionally and are showing up just to see the fireworks....

Re:You have 30 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose '

[TheGreatGraySkwid]

"Is this a bug in the slashcode or what? I thought you could only get 5 modpoints at a time... and my "points" don't show up on regular /.

Insight anyone? Will i get $rtbl for going on a modding spree?"

Don't be silly. They *want* you to moderate the hell out of things, in part to stress the system, and in part to encourage all the trolls to do their thing (stressing the system).

Interestingly, I used all 30 points, did my Meta-modding, and then came back a bit later to find I then had 60 points!