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.
I would also like to know why Slashdot is suddenly pandering to the Silicon Valley crowd by moving the servers to the West Coast, leaving us Right Coasters with high latency and slow connections (than usual, I mean).
A beowolf custer of these things...
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster.
C'mon, admit it, you just want the extra ad impressions so you can boost Your faltering stock above $1 long enough so you don't get delisted.