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Surviving Slashdotting with a Small Server

Posted by michael on from the soon-to-be-an-oreilly-book dept.

S.BartFarst writes "Our little departmental server has been slashdotted twice in the last year and survived! Implementation of a two-headed redundant hardware scheme using linux virtual server and backup and failover capabilities enhanced by the linux high-availability tools has produced a nifty low-cost solution. Gotta love those little white boxes! (also having a university-supplied BIG PIPE doesn't hurt). More interesting is the documentation of the apparent exponentially decaying attention span of slashdotters. Anybody else observed similar phenomena?"

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  1. Monty Python Guide! by swordboy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Use:

    Very Small Text

    --

    Life is the leading cause of death in America.
  2. Our soloution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    We run a very popular linux website that frequently gets linked to by slashdot readers. (not telling were). And we have a little script that gets rid of unwanted users. (In pesudo code)
    if($REFERER="slashdot.org"){
    print "<html><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.goatse.cx"><body><h1>Sla shdot users banned, redirecting you elsewhere...</h1></body></html>"
    }
    I know youre thinking -1, troll, but we have little choice BUT to with bandwidth costs.
  3. Our solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We run a very popular linux website that frequently gets linked to by slashdot readers. (not telling were). And we have a little script that gets rid of unwanted users. (In pesudo code)

    if($REFERER="slashdot.org"){
    print "<html><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.goatse.cx"><body><h1>Sla shdot users banned, redirecting you elsewhere...</h1></body></html>"
    }
    I know youre thinking -1,flamebait., but we have little choice BUT to with bandwidth costs. Perhaps you can REPLY instead of moderating down if you disagree, or is censorship the standard way of disagreeing with people on slashdot?