[clug] Michael Still gets a present from slashdot.org :D

[Simon Haddon]

Michael Still wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Neil Symons wrote:
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>>Just FYI, the ISP who hosts Michael's Website survived the slashdoting
>>very well.
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>Which was very nice. It should be pointed out that most months I get 
>traffic spikes in the order of 80,000 hits a day -- these are normally 
>associated with google reindexing, and things like that.
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>I'm a bit disappointed. I always assumed a slashdotting took a _lot_ more 
>traffic than that.
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Don't forget that you have caught a quiet time as most people would be 
off on holidays, parties, beach, etc.  This would have reduced the /. 
effect considerably

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>The other thing to note with the load average is that the content of the 
>site is generated with a crappy perl script I wrote. Each hit runs the 
>perl script. To survive a real slashdotting I would have needed to 
>statically generate the content.
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>Finally, the images on the page really should be JPEGS... That would 
>reduce their size my an order of magnitude.
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>>As for Michaels Wallat - Hmmmmm *tsk* *tsk* Will need to have a few
>>words with you later.
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>I would like to take this opportunity to point out that Goldweb is clearly 
>the best hosting company I have ever experienced. Especially given their 
>understanding at this time.
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>I'll pay Bofh and Nemo in pizza at CLUG meetings.
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>Mikal
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