BBC on Website Slow Downs

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 21, 2003 @08:00AM from the sure-gets-tricky dept.

HiveMaster writes "The BBC is carrying a report about the impact on websites as people try to get news regarding the war in Iraq. It talks of a report from Keynote Systems, which tests the reponsiveness of websites, which shows that the BBC news site has shown a fourfold increase in response times. However, Government sites in both the US and the UK are being hit, with the US Army site taking over 80 seconds to load at peak times." Also, here is a press release this. You can also read My journal where I've talked quite a bit about what Slashdot has done in preperation for traffic bursts.

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Hmmm... by TopShelf · 2003-03-21 08:03 · Score: 3, Funny

so if Taco posts a link to his own journal in the article header, can he /. /.???

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1. Re:Hmmm... by Didion+Sprague · 2003-03-21 08:15 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  If /. /.'s /., then is it still officially a /.?
2. Re:Hmmm... by John+Zebedee · 2003-03-21 08:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  How much / could a /.ter / if a /.ter could /. /.?
  
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3. Re:Hmmm... by Error27 · 2003-03-21 08:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Because it runs on MySQL.
Your Journal? by SuDZ · 2003-03-21 08:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Shameless plug for your journal to get us to read it? ;)

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and it won't get any better... by babyblink · 2003-03-21 08:03 · Score: 5, Funny

since you just slashdot it...

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1. Re:and it won't get any better... by James_Duncan8181 · 2003-03-21 08:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  As the BBC is the site with the highest traffic in Europe in think in this case it would be a beebing(?) of Slashdot.
  
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oi by Judg3 · 2003-03-21 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny

"Here's a bunch of links to some sites that are really really unresponsive now because of the war. Everyone please go check them out"

There's a joke in there somewhere, for sure.

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Good idea... by bahwi · 2003-03-21 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny

The BBC is under heavy load. Click here to see how slow their website is loading!
slashdot by WPIDalamar · 2003-03-21 08:05 · Score: 3, Funny

great, talking about web site slow downs, and then we go slashdot them!
Give credit where credit is due by Mothra+the+III · 2003-03-21 08:06 · Score: 4, Funny

Where is the term "Slashdot effect" in this article?

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BBC Website Slows Down by Saggy · 2003-03-21 08:09 · Score: 4, Funny

In other news, the BBC's website slows down as Slashdot, news for nerds, reports on the BBC reporting about website slow downs...
Oh my God! They've slashdotted Bagdhad! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-21 08:10 · Score: 3, Funny

You BASTARDS!
Yeah, right... by Eric+Damron · 2003-03-21 08:10 · Score: 2, Funny

They think it's the war that is causing so many hits but we know that the web site was mentioned on /. and that alone is enough to bring most sites to their knees!

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My site is ok by ch-chuck · 2003-03-21 08:11 · Score: 2, Funny

strangely enough, my site about Spacewar (1961 game) on the Altair (1975 computer) got one hit yesterday from usmc.mil.

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Re:Fourfold!?? by CheeseburgerBlue · 2003-03-21 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

The use of the term "fourfold" itself nails the headline as coming from the BBC.

A more North American slant would have been something pithier like "lots mucher."

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A new book? by StarTux · 2003-03-21 08:24 · Score: 2, Funny

"The Slashdot guide to the Slashdot effect"

In smaller print:

Business guide to avoding web slow downs.

Thought I'd keep my typo/spelling mistake for real effect...

StarTux
a force stronger than the slashdot effect by CySurflex · 2003-03-21 08:33 · Score: 3, Funny

War on Iraq is causing all these web sites to slow down?!?
Finally a force stronger than the slashdot effect.
ct /.'s self, fillm at 11 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-21 08:46 · Score: 1, Funny

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The requested URL /~CmdrTaco/journal/27736 was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.22 Server at alterslash.org Port 80
Saddam's plot by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-21 08:46 · Score: 1, Funny

He planned this: he deliberately drove the US into war with Iraq precisely to cause the CNN and BBC websites to get DDOS'd.
Cunning bastard!
Currently he is also causing the US huge amounts of economic tricking them into launching multimillion dollar cruise missiles into relatively worthless buildings.
And Bush fell for it all. Brilliant strategist, that Saddam!
Missing The Winter Music Conference by szyzyg · 2003-03-21 10:08 · Score: 2, Funny

I can't tune into BBC Radio 1 at their yearly DJ party in Miami... the Real Audio server is just too loaded.

Dammit some of us are interested in *real* news.
All I care about is the weapons of mass dancing that the DJ's are going to be showing off.