Posts Tagged ‘slashdot effect’

Thank You Slashdot

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

If this site has been acting up or exceptionally slow for you during the last 24 hours, the reason was probably that a link to the Dell sub-notebook story got posted on the front page of Slashdot.  This resulted in a whopping 3.5GiB of traffic during the last 24 hours.  As you can imagine, this was not a server load we anticipated having.


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