[Gllug] Slashdotting

[Pete Ryland]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:21, t.clarke wrote:
> > Richard Jones wrote:
> > 'probably due to slashdotting.....'
> > 
> > Forgive mny ignorance; what's that ?
> 
> It's when your site/article/project gets mentioned on
> http://slashdot.org/
> 
> The result is a torrent of mostly ignorant american teenagers sucking up
> all your bandwidth.

Generally however, it is not a bandwidth limitation that will take a site
down from a slashdot link, but a processer limitation on a poorly-written
dynamic page or a badly-configured web server.  However, sometimes ISPs will
block by referrer to save bandwidth.

Pete

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