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- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33"Who the ***** pays for a T1 and uses a 486?"
Grr.. Celeron 466. - Fredx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35a Celeron 466 is far far more powerful than a 486
- mushroomblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29hah. I'll take "Irony" for $500, Alex.
anyone got a mirror? - jamesivie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31486 != Celeron 466
- sq377, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28He may survive the bandwidth... but NO ONE SURVIVES WORDPRESS
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Oh, the beutifull irony of it all :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+41Who the ***** pays for a T1 and uses a 486?
- dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Oh noes! The tubes, they do nothing!
Digg effect 1, slashdot effect 0. - spahn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Looks like he didn't survive digg, though.... I can't seem to connect anyway.
- blastradius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17But how many Digg people actually click through on links compared to Slashdotters? Digg might have more hits, but whether articles get more click-thrus is another issue. I'd like to see that stat.
Judging by the quality of comments on Digg versus Slashdot, I'd guess that there aren't nearly as many click-thrus via Digg. I'm not dissing Digg, since I use it, but I find a much higher quality of user comment on Slashdot. - isleshocky77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Read the article... not only did he not have a 486, he didn't have a T1 either. He says he had a DSL line, but heard that a Pentium 90 could saturate a T1.. doesn't say he had a T1.
"... over 4 GB! Granted this isn’t impressive compared to a real production environment, but not bad for an old Celeron on a DSL line." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Down for the count :D
Digg = PWNAGE - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Given this ( http://snipurl.com/y7d1 ), he'll probably hit around 60% cpu utilisation. Also, he didn't use a 486, he used a celeron 466.
- iSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16How Ironic.
Digg > Slashdot? I think so :O - mendicitis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Uh oh. I think we killed it.
- JoshuaGross, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@schrodiggity
While you made me smile, go light on the guy, it looks like most people here think 486 > 466 :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14
http://www.frontiernet.net/~joe14580/captain%20obvious.jpg - MisterEd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"this guy survived it on T1 with a 486!"
Read the article again. How can you get it right in the subject but then stuff it up in the summary? - nogami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Surviving really isn't that hard if you a) don't have a site that runs on a database/php backend, and b) don't have a lot of graphics to load (especially large ones).
If you know the flood is coming, you just prepare your site accordingly.
I imagine I could handle a slashdottin' just fine on my home DSL if I made it a straight text page (single http request) with no graphics... - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Upcoming story on digg:
Not Surviving a Digg-effect With a Celeron 466: My Digg Experience. - Runik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9congrats fellas .. we took him down a peg .. or two . The digg effect has taken hold
- Runik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1041 diggs and his site is down .. what a lightweight lol .. I am quite amused . Its like it was a challange to the diggers to take this guy down
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I find slashdot a bit more readable because it's not a race to the front page, they tend to give things some thought before they post them. Also, they don't use all caps in titles or misspell things deliberately to grab attention. It's true that the slashdot effect is diminished and they no longer have the power to ***** up a server quite like they used to, but I kind of enjoy not having to find a mirror for every other story.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Articles like this make me wonder how many of the submitters of Digg work in the Geek Squad.
- L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Maybe it WAS a 486.
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Don't forget to click "digg it", so nobody misses the hilarious irony.
- pixogen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://www.duggmirror.com
...added because the link times out. - ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@doolin
Nah. I've been hit by both (at the same time) and Digg sends over three times the traffic that Slashdot does, on average. Slashdot used to be a force, but now it's just another boring weblog with week-old news. Shame. - hashpipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well that made me laugh. I'd love to read it but he can't survive the diggs
- spacey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5From the mirror:
"All in all it was a very interesting experience, and hopefully it will happen again sometime. The server which was on order at the time is currently serving the site, and should be able to handle much more load without me needing to touch it if it were to happen again, but we’ll see…"
So not only is he no longer using the 466, his 'new' server can't handle this load. Unless he's rebooting it (which he did a couple of times during his /.'ing) - combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I could see some snot-nosed 12 year old doing it too
"SURVIEV???!!! F5 *****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 F5 F5 F5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1" - vdog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wasn't obvious to the guy who wrote the description, obviously.
- subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very cool article. Interesting to see what a Digg-type slam looks like from the other end of the pipe. If this article takes off here I wonder if he can repeat the performance??
- BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The most likely part of the machine to ***** itself is the database or the middleware (php)
if the pages are static (just plain old .html), an early pentium can even support the slashdot effect if configured properly... it's not a whole lot of work to service HTTP requests, it's only work when the pages are dynamic - doolin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I think /. still has bigger pull
- optikshell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not bad. At least he took the time to think things over to minimize the slash-dottage.
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is called caching...
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is why I paid the $100 to host my site http://www.hmtk.com on a REAL server rather than off of my DSL line.
I tried the DSL line hosting for a year figuring I could save some money but... It just was not worth it. My DSL provider blocked remote access to my server so if it went down I could not access it remotely.
I still have the machine in my basement (486 100MHz running Debian with 32MB) and it was never a problem. I did not use any MySQL or PHP on my site though, just plain HTML files.
It made updating my site easier for me when home but a pain when on the road. The dynamic IP DNS company I used worked well enough. My Smoothwall PC handled updating my IP if my DSL line ever went down but... If the server itself ever went down it would not power itself back-up.
Perhaps I'll blog about it sometime in the future... - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, this is supposed to be the *new* server :)
- cds0528, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's not down, it just takes a ridiculous amount of time to connect.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I can't remember how many years ago I read this story. No digg.
- realsurreal2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Surviving_A_Slashdotting_With_a_Celeron_466_My_Slashdot_Experience/
- mushroomblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2according to Isaac Richards of MythTV fame, slashdot sent about 70% of the visitors to his website on the last release (September 11th, 2006).
if dugg sends the hits, it might be a matter of what story is being linked. - drwiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I survived it with an AMD 5x86 (486-class chip operating at 133 MHz) with 32 MB of RAM running FreeBSD 2.x. As long as you have Apache configured properly, you should be good. Aside from a bit of overhead CPU load due to the ISA network card, I don't think the machine ever broke a sweat.
- MattElmore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How old are you?
- thewhitefedora, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It appears that we have taken down the database server....according to the error page wordpress fed me, he can't even log in to his own blog now.
- devnulled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ha, had I seen that my site was getting dugg earlier than now I would have turned-off seeding of torrents hours ago which basically uses all of my upstream bandwidth. Anyhow, it should't be a problem to get to the site now.
The person that dugg this article has his facts wrong-- I have a fairly plain DSL line that I host with that is 1.5 MB down 512 KB up.
This is on a beefier box now, so really the "fuse" is how much bandwidth I have. - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A Celeron 466 isn't exactly a speed demon, even if it is faster than a 486.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron%20466%20-%20FV80524RX466128%20(FV524RX466%20128).html
66 MHz FSB, 128K L2 cache ... - devnulled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just to clarify, the server is humming along without incident:
-bash-2.05b$ uptime
11:53AM up 52 days, 12:32, 3 users, load averages: 0.43, 0.25, 0.20
I was seeding torrents when most of you were starting to hit the site.. I killed them so your requests could be served back once I found-out about it. - Vulcan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When he was Slashdotted, he was at the console and able to switch over from a database driven site to a static page. Even so, his site was down for a couple of hours. I wonder what sort of warning he had and what he was able to do when he was Dugg.
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