You'd be proud until you saw the bandwidth bill. I don't give a shit if people look at it, I'd just like some common decency when sites that have a very very high readership, like slashdot, post a link to a site that's on a machine of mine. I highly doubt cnn.com would just blindly link to an external site knowing that the link would hit that site with boatloads of unexpected traffic. You're crazy to suggest that everybody that's ever put anything on the internet has taken into consideration getting a hundred thousand hits in one day, and that they should just smile and foot the bill for the bandwidth, happy as a damn lark.
Ok, I'll go lease some rackspace in a nice multi-homed colo house and pay out the ass for bandwidth just so I can throw money away because of being put on slashdot. That sounds like a jolly time, jackass.
There's a difference in people coming to a site and people swamping somebody's bandwidth for what really amounts to nothing. If slashdot wants to mirror it, I don't care, just don't rape my bandwidth.
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You'd be proud until you saw the bandwidth bill. I don't give a shit if people look at it, I'd just like some common decency when sites that have a very very high readership, like slashdot, post a link to a site that's on a machine of mine. I highly doubt cnn.com would just blindly link to an external site knowing that the link would hit that site with boatloads of unexpected traffic. You're crazy to suggest that everybody that's ever put anything on the internet has taken into consideration getting a hundred thousand hits in one day, and that they should just smile and foot the bill for the bandwidth, happy as a damn lark.
The difference is two or three hundred views per day versus twenty thousand views in half an hour.
Ok, I'll go lease some rackspace in a nice multi-homed colo house and pay out the ass for bandwidth just so I can throw money away because of being put on slashdot. That sounds like a jolly time, jackass.
Indeed, like I said before, the system load was 0.09, the only problem was the bandwidth.
There's a difference in people coming to a site and people swamping somebody's bandwidth for what really amounts to nothing. If slashdot wants to mirror it, I don't care, just don't rape my bandwidth.
I have two words for you, screw 'em.
Badly configured? The server was fine, the load was 0.09, it's the link that went a bit tits up.
Yeah, would have been nice if I (the hoster of asciipr0n.com) would have gotten some notice before being effectively DDoSed.