How Long would SD.net stay up if we were slashdotted?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-05-23 08:34pm

Based on the average ammount of traffic slashdotted sites recieve, how long would sd.net remain running if we were linked to on slashdot?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-05-23 08:36pm

Why, did you link us to slashdot? Did we get linked?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-05-23 08:51pm

No. I was just wondering.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-05-23 09:56pm

How would they bring this board to doom anyway?~Jason

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-05-23 10:01pm

slashdot is one of the most widely read computer news sites on the net. Within hours of being linked to by them more people than most sites see in a year will have clicked the link and visited the site that was linked to. Kind like someone's mail box would be nuked if, on a popular nationally aired tv show someone gave away their adress, an interesting snippet about them and told people to write them if they wanted more info.

Rock Lee · Post by **Rock Lee** » 2004-05-23 10:18pm

A few hours.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-23 11:44pm

Much larger servers than SD.Net have been brought to their knees by the Slashdot Effect.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-23 11:47pm

Show long does the Slashdot Effect last?

Eg: When the next site is posted there, will they all forget about us?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-05-23 11:50pm

Good God in heaven, somebody delete this thread before a TKer comes along and reads it!

lukexcom · Post by **lukexcom** » 2004-05-24 12:04am

Gandalf wrote:Show long does the Slashdot Effect last?

Eg: When the next site is posted there, will they all forget about us?

Here, some info on a shiny platter with gleaming silverware. Food obtained from Google Restaurants Inc. Bon appetit!

"Slashdot Effect"
Wikipedia definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

January 1999 incident and data:
http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/Sl ... ffect.html

July 2000 incident and data:
http://slash.dotat.org/~newton/installp ... ffect.html

October 2002 incident and data:
http://www.geek.com/features/slashdot/

December 2003 incident and data:
http://www.komar.org/xmas/2003/stats/sl ... ffect.html

A good Professional Dissertation on the Slashdot effect:
http://alex.halavais.net/research/diss.pdf

Hope this helps.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-05-24 12:23am

Rogue 9 wrote:Good God in heaven, somebody delete this thread before a TKer comes along and reads it!

you're lucky I'm retired.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-24 12:28am

lukexcom wrote:
Gandalf wrote:Hope this helps.

You certainly have.

Thanks.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-05-24 02:40am

The dreaded /. effect would kill sd.net in a matter of a minute or less.

Even huge webboards like broadbandreports shivers when the /. crowd appears.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-05-24 03:12am

I'm surprised this hasn't been deleted yet, or at the very least HOSed.

And lukexcom, that's some interesting reading there.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-24 03:22am

/. would smash Mike's puny server in moments.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-05-24 03:44am

3rd Impact wrote:I'm surprised this hasn't been deleted yet, or at the very least HOSed.

And lukexcom, that's some interesting reading there.

Don't worry, it's not dangerous. People can't just "slash-dot" something at will. Anybody can post on slashdot, but your post is just one of bazillions and it's not going to get much attention unless someone at slashdot decides to give it attention, by putting it on the front page.

Even then, it might only get attention if a lot of slashdotters are intrigued by its (advertised) content. So it's not as if some troll can just say "hey, I'll slashdot this site because I don't like it!" It doesn't work that way.

Anyway, if the site did get slashdotted the 2Mbps connection would probably max out before the server does. Remember that slashdotters would be able to view but not post or search.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-05-24 06:32am

Ah, my ignorance is showing.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-05-24 06:42am

Rogue 9 wrote:Good God in heaven, somebody delete this thread before a TKer comes along and reads it!

What's stopping us from slashdotting them?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-24 09:08am

Spyder wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Good God in heaven, somebody delete this thread before a TKer comes along and reads it!
What's stopping us from slashdotting them?

Same thing as Mike posted, names reversed.

Who'd really want to see a "Troll Kingdom" anyway?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-05-24 09:13am

Gandalf wrote:
Same thing as Mike posted, names reversed.

Who'd really want to see a "Troll Kingdom" anyway?

Those afflicted by the same curiosity that makes people stare at car wrecks, or the mentally handicaped child as he unsuccessfully swats at flies for an early lunch.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-05-24 12:02pm

Faram wrote:The dreaded /. effect would kill sd.net in a matter of a minute or less.

Even huge webboards like broadbandreports shivers when the /. crowd appears.

My dorm's laundry server was slashdotted and we were able to get it working again pretty quick. 'Course, its a pretty small page to be transmitting, and the computer to person ratio at Random is greater than 2.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-05-24 12:50pm

Slashdot? Oh Jesus HHH Christ! Reading material on Slashdot Trolls. They're monstrous...

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-05-24 02:21pm

Symmetry wrote:
Faram wrote:The dreaded /. effect would kill sd.net in a matter of a minute or less.

Even huge webboards like broadbandreports shivers when the /. crowd appears.
My dorm's laundry server was slashdotted and we were able to get it working again pretty quick. 'Course, its a pretty small page to be transmitting, and the computer to person ratio at Random is greater than 2.

Only MIT would have a laundry server!

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-05-24 02:48pm

Even if most of these people joined up to post, they're limited to the speed the mods could approve them, and seeing what would happen I assume they would stop approving until the /. effect stops. The bandwidth wuld be filled from millions of pageviews, but we'd be fine after a short time.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-24 03:24pm

Darth Wong wrote:
3rd Impact wrote:I'm surprised this hasn't been deleted yet, or at the very least HOSed.

And lukexcom, that's some interesting reading there.
Don't worry, it's not dangerous. People can't just "slash-dot" something at will. Anybody can post on slashdot, but your post is just one of bazillions and it's not going to get much attention unless someone at slashdot decides to give it attention, by putting it on the front page.

Even then, it might only get attention if a lot of slashdotters are intrigued by its (advertised) content. So it's not as if some troll can just say "hey, I'll slashdot this site because I don't like it!" It doesn't work that way.

Anyway, if the site did get slashdotted the 2Mbps connection would probably max out before the server does. Remember that slashdotters would be able to view but not post or search.

The real effect kicks in when one of the editors posts a story with a link. I doubt the /. editors (as incompetent as they seem sometimes) would post a TK story that was obviously meant to just bring down SD.Net.