On Dec 21, 2007 1:47 AM, Luca de Alfaro luca@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 :)
--- Akash