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- Yetisquatch, on 03/08/2008, -6/+426Thats a serious case mod right there. Must have taken hours. Were they going for Doom theme?
- colosis, on 03/08/2008, -13/+250wordpress...
- shadowsurfr1, on 03/08/2008, -4/+179Hopefully they had off-site backups.
- oogyy, on 03/08/2008, -12/+170Take that, Scientology!
- plup, on 03/08/2008, -0/+126Probably post-Chernobyl theme.
- ahpro, on 03/08/2008, -0/+98It'll be so ironic when this site goes down.
- Shreyasva, on 03/08/2008, -4/+98if this makes it to the home page. will the server hosting this also catch fire?
- spudlyo, on 03/08/2008, -1/+89How about a screenshot of top(1) with 256 httpd processes in the run queue, with kswapd0 at the top eating 99.9% of the CPU?
Here are some tips on how to avoid a meltdown. Run MySQL on a separate box, turn on logging of long running queries. Enable on caching in whatever you're using for a CMS, this will likely help a lot to reduce traffic to the database. Tune your httpd.conf, make sure that you actually have enough memory to support whatever MaxClients is set to. Use something like Apache Bench (ab) or siege to actually see what your site does under load. Set up PHP opcode caching (xcache) if your site is PHP heavy. - camino262, on 03/08/2008, -1/+71RIP Mr. rack mounted server. I could tell you fought a long and brutal battle.
- blankoboy, on 03/08/2008, -6/+75They must have had a serious FIREwall.
/try the veal..... - crownedgriffin, on 03/08/2008, -2/+67I bet 10 bacon points that the backups were kept on site. :O
- SSCrow, on 03/08/2008, -8/+65'Served' by Fire!
- luchid, on 03/08/2008, -4/+53I never really understood why people bash Wordpress. It's an excellent blogging platform, it's not the developers' fault that most people host their blogs on crappy servers.
- inactive, on 03/08/2008, -0/+45I will see your 10 bacon points, and raise you another 10 bacon points along with 2 brownie points... That they didn't even keep backups :P
- inactive, on 03/08/2008, -0/+43Dugg for using excessive techno babel
- freedomischaos, on 03/08/2008, -9/+46lp on fire
- darkecho, on 03/08/2008, -1/+38Its because a lot of people don't cache their pages. Thus when you have thousands and thousands of hits in a short period of time the resources used by PHP and MySQL take down the server.
- sporg, on 03/08/2008, -1/+37I would be interested to know how long the rack continued to be online while on fire. If you access a web server while it is on fire are you an accessory to arson?
According to the RIAA you might be. - Hedgecore, on 03/08/2008, -2/+34I would've thought the Digg effect would just fill up the disk space with useless one word comments and catch phrases.
- jimmy4skin, on 03/08/2008, -14/+44"don't flame me bro"
- KnifeOrSpoon, on 03/08/2008, -0/+27I hope so too since that setup really didn't look like it was a data centre. It looks like it is just a room next to an office,
and i'm starting to wonder where the fire started with those servers stacked up on the left side of the picture (from what looks like the floor).
Mind you, that rack looks to be housing a few Sun systems, and they are not cheap.... There is an easy 150k US of equipment just in those Sun systems, and perhaps the rack they are stored in.
Data centres (by design) don't usually have this happen. Early warning smoke detection systems would raise an alarm before a fire like that of a newpaper being set alight would occur. - keyme, on 03/08/2008, -1/+28Digg.com: Best DDoS tool ever created.
- Yesplease, on 03/08/2008, -0/+27interesting that the only book whose cover is partially unburnt is by Colbert. That's how we make books in America people, FIREPROOF.
- Digisphere, on 03/08/2008, -3/+28Server status: Currently down for maintenance
- Premier, on 03/08/2008, -6/+29Looks like a job for oxi-clean
- ineptsavant, on 03/08/2008, -1/+24I take it your don't have much experience with modern computers.
- linksus, on 03/08/2008, -0/+23Doesnt look like a datacenter to me. More like a rack in a cupboard.
That would be the cause.. - CrazyDave303, on 03/08/2008, -3/+26That gives firewire a whole new meaning. (ok it's 5:23 in the morning, brain not smrtest the right know(
- ChayD, on 03/08/2008, -1/+23***** OFF SPAMMER
- aaabatteries, on 03/08/2008, -1/+23it's a vicious cycle...
- maverex, on 03/08/2008, -3/+25Dugg because there's actually somebody else with more than half a brain on Digg.
- Cryoniq, on 03/08/2008, -1/+22Not anymore.. I can tell you that.. ha ha ha.
- AdebisiTheGamer, on 03/08/2008, -1/+19My website gets about 50 hits a month. But they are all vital hits. So, I should invest in a 100k webserver or lease expensive space on one just in case once every 10 years one of my ramblings makes it on digg? Really rather have the server crash a few days, thanks.
- 3leggedHorse, on 03/08/2008, -0/+16 Always nice to see burnt *****.
- Premier, on 03/08/2008, -1/+17golf clap
- fkr3, on 03/08/2008, -2/+17No. All digg does is send 20,000 to 100,000 people to a website spaced out over 5 or 6 hours but with an intense burst of traffic while the story's above the fold on the front page. It's about the equivelent of opening Photoshop twice.
The reason servers "die" from digg is because they have hundreds of websites on them and the cumulative load is too much. They don't actually die though they're just unable to respond to requests. - sourceholder, on 03/08/2008, -0/+14Report his comment as OFFENSIVE.
- cr3ative, on 03/08/2008, -3/+17Sadly, the people digging your comment down probably didn't think to look up the reference.
- Archer007, on 03/08/2008, -0/+14I like my hard drives crispy.
- reddcell, on 03/08/2008, -0/+13@ZeroCool07
Yet another "swing and a miss" comment. Why do your parents let you on the computer, little boy? - Ploosheeta, on 03/08/2008, -0/+11I'm going to digg you up so it seems like I know what you're talking about.
- btattersall, on 03/08/2008, -0/+11Give this man the $10,000
- doshindude, on 03/08/2008, -1/+12it should be a requirement for web 2.0 that servers should be able to handle digg.
- ikickass, on 03/08/2008, -0/+10ZeroCool? THE ZeroCool? From the movie Hackers? oh wait, youre ZeroCool07, not the original. My mistake.
- Rotzooi, on 03/08/2008, -0/+10If your servers are at 100% load 24/7, you may want to invest in a few more.
- sfacets, on 03/08/2008, -3/+13Was the server running Windows?
- spudlyo, on 03/08/2008, -0/+10http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ametaphor
- Hincapie, on 03/08/2008, -2/+12waah waah waaaaaaaaa-a-a-a-h
- joeycerone, on 03/08/2008, -2/+11***** THE RIAA!!!!!
- fireblade278, on 03/08/2008, -1/+10did the firewall fail?
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