Quote:By the way...could this site handle a slashdotting??
it survived and it happened
Quote:Most users ever online was 693 on Nov 8 2004, 11:08 PM
however i did have to take drastic measures (pull the network cable out for the night)
the site survived as you can see clearly right
here on netcraft.com
reasons why i pulled the cable for those 7 hours:
far too many hits from slashdot
the computer was not powerful enough
not enough ram
slow hard disc
mysql was going to bring the server to it's knees (hard disc access was 100% and uptime revealed that the server load was totally going out of control all down to mysql... and lack of ram and cpu power.)
the site that was slashdotted was this one (linux-noob.com)
and it's hosted on a laptop (dell latitude L400) with 256mb ram, 20 gig hd, p3 677 mhz processor, 8mb down/800kb/s up line
which is of course, not enough when it comes to a slashdot
in addition
[/url]http://anyweb.kicks-ass.net
http://anyweb.homedns.org
http://htas.game-host.org
[url=https://www.linux-noob.com]https://www.linux-noob.com
are all hosted on the same box (under my stairs)
so the fact that the site is still up after all that is good ! go fedora i say
it runs on fedora core release 1
and yeah it needs to be upgraded. i'll do that someday
cheers
anyweb