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?"

Comments

Re:Third Time's a Charm?

[Joe Jordan]

... begin repeatedly pressing the refresh button like a maniac..... NOW!!!

Re:Our solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashcode eats up my example php code.

if($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER] == "http://slashdot.org/")
{
header("Location: http://www.tubgirl.com");
}