Wow boards.ie got slashdotted

Hobbes · 25-02-2003 4:38pm #1

and it's still standing? Is there any smoke in the office devore?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/0322238

Dustaz · 25-02-2003 4:40pm

Ireland offline has been mentioned a few times on slashdot and the forum has been linked before too.

Typedef · 25-02-2003 4:45pm

regi · 25-02-2003 4:47pm

not a bother

Doodee · 25-02-2003 5:06pm

[Noob] So what exactly is the problem with slashdot?[/Noob]

Hobbes · 25-02-2003 5:08pm

Originally posted by Doodee
[Noob] So what exactly is the problem with slashdot?[/Noob]

slashdot effect n.

1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened when a website being virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service. The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "That site has been slashdotted again!" 2. In a perhaps inevitable generation, the term is being used to describe any similar effect from being listed on a popular site. This would better be described as a flash crowd. Differs from a DoS attack in being unintentional.

DeVore · 25-02-2003 7:09pm

most normal webservers just get flattened. Boards, however, is no normal webserver

Regi is being very modest, there arent many sites that survive it so casually...

Apart from a BIG rise in our Users Online (and I suspect in our impressions) things passed smoothly enough.

[nerd]
Its kinda like having the Eye of Sauron look at you and then pass you over....
[/nerd]

DeV.