Surviving Slashdotting with a Small Server

Posted by michael on Sunday August 10, 2003 @09:41AM 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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Re:Third Time's a Charm? by Ninja+Master+Gara · 2003-08-10 09:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's the S-Prize. Soon John Carmack will be in on it and it'll get huge computer-media attention.

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Are you asking for a challenge??!? by DuctTape · 2003-08-10 09:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

DOUBLE-DEUCE!!!!
had to be said... sorry.
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