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Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yet-drudge-still-stands dept.

DragonFire1024 writes "Wikinews.org — The Wikileaks website, which publishes sensitive and censored material submitted by anonymous contributors, has experienced unprecedented levels of Internet traffic today through public interest. This interest has caused the website's servers to be unable to meet the enormous demand of over 164 gigabytes of download traffic within twenty-four hours, leading the site to be temporarily inaccessible."

2 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Freenet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or Tor, if you want it to not suck.

  2. Wrong choice of OS? by wilbury · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they are running Linux, they should, IMHO, move to operating system of a better quality, such as FreeBSD 7.0 or Solaris 10, because Linux is not able to catch up in heavy loaded internet servers :-(