Surviving Slashdotting with a Small Server

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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Re:A.D.D. crowd

[finallyHasANickname]

I was just thinking about A to D converters, all of which wind up offering Data, which seems reasonable for something whose acronym would be A.D.D.--what do you mean by swing? Golf? Baseball? Java? Music? Sex?

Hey wait a minute! What was it we were talking about?

Unslashdottable

[mkweise]

If you're like me and visiting the unslashdottable siteeven downloading the MPEGsleaves you feeling powerless and depressed, here's a server that you can easily get to barf.