Maybe this will be considered a troll but here is my RANT for the day!!! I think the fact that servers often buckle under the load of the/. effect displays the inadequacy of most web servers. I was slashdotted a few months ago http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/01/0220213.shtm l?tid=167 (the comment about the 24 hard drives in one PC) My DSL line and Windows 95 P-120 server took the load with out any problem at all. Here take a whack at taking it down again if you want, I logged a record of the activity from the last slashdotting http://fileserver.coleskingdom.com. Almost 100,000 hits on a heavily pictured page in 12 hours and no problem other than some one winnuked me a couple of times before I installed the patches. If you put an interesting site up you should realize it may be slashdotted someday and you should be ready to deal with it whether it is on you home site or on a commercially hosted site. In addition I would never host any mission critical site of mine on a commercial hosting service that has a record of buckling under the/. effect.
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Maybe this will be considered a troll but here is my RANT for the day!!! /. effect displays the inadequacy of most web servers. I was slashdotted a few months ago http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/01/0220213.shtm l?tid=167 (the comment about the 24 hard drives in one PC) /. effect.
I think the fact that servers often buckle under the load of the
My DSL line and Windows 95 P-120 server took the load with out any problem at all. Here take a whack at taking it down again if you want, I logged a record of the activity from the last slashdotting http://fileserver.coleskingdom.com.
Almost 100,000 hits on a heavily pictured page in 12 hours and no problem other than some one winnuked me a couple of times before I installed the patches. If you put an interesting site up you should realize it may be slashdotted someday and you should be ready to deal with it whether it is on you home site or on a commercially hosted site. In addition I would never host any mission critical site of mine on a commercial hosting service that has a record of buckling under the
Well after I updated the OS and no more crashes.
I can not belive the machine is taking this kind of punishment.