On Dec 21, 2007 1:47 AM, Luca de Alfaro <luca(a)dealfaro.org> wrote:
Thanks for your concerns!... we were slashdotted in
August, and our servers
went down then (it was a 1 CPU machine).
Now the server uses memcached and squid, and it is an 8 CPU machine.
Also, the campus is making us go down via power cuts (they are replacing
some feeds somewhere), so in a sense, why also not go down due to
Slashdotting, which is more honor and more fun? :-)
So perhaps I should announce on wikien-l ?
Luca
If you've got 8 CPUs and you're running memcached, nothing we procure
(besides an entire server farm) could be more fun to observe crashing.
Go for it, and keep some traffic logs :)
For added fun, contact some of the top Digg members directly and ask
them to go all out in getting it popular on
Digg.com. Instant masses
of traffic :)
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Akash