Public Interest In Great White Shark Devours Research Site's Servers

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 20, 2014 @01:32AM from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-load-balancer dept.

Lucas123 writes: Katherine, a 14-foot, 2,300lb. Great White Shark, has become so popular with visitors to a research site tracking her daily movements that the site's servers have crashed and remained down for hours. The shark, one of dozens tagged for research by the non-profit global shark tracking project OCEARCH, typically cruises very close to shore up and down the Eastern Seaboard. That has attracted a lot interest from the swimming public. Currently, however, she's heading from Florida's west coast toward Texas. OCEARCH tags sharks with four different technologies to create a three-dimensional image of a shark's activities. "On average, we're collecting 100 data points every second — 8.5 million data points per day."

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They should have wanted shark servers... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-06-20 01:36 · Score: 4, Funny

...with frigging optical fiber connection!

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What?! by Extremus · 2014-06-20 01:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

And how posting this in Slashdot is going to help?
Slashdot? by mfh · 2014-06-20 02:00 · Score: 4, Funny

I know we don't push the traffic we did in the old days, but so when a site goes down, you think, "Let's Slashdot it too!"
Sharkdotted.

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You're going to need a bigger... by Bongo · 2014-06-20 02:14 · Score: 4, Funny

boat?
Re:in = as, far more interesting by dragon-file · 2014-06-20 03:52 · Score: 4, Funny

One byte at a time.

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