Internet Slashdotted!

[george7378]

I woke up this morning to see that my site had exploded with visits overnight, and that my photobucket account had been temporarily disabled! I don't know if this is good or bad:

 

[Wally]

When I saw your URL in the Slashdot news, I said: "Oh, poor guy... His server will just not going to make it...". But it was up when I read the news and it's up right now also. So congrats to your hosting company

 

[george7378]

I made a site backup, just in case The reason I survived is because my free domain (gkastro.a60.us) is under a different name (gkastro.tk) which means that any visits are handled by the .tk domain name, which has an unlimited bandwidth :thumbup: It's still going strong though...

 

[george7378]

My site survived the wave, but my photobucket account is out until next month. :lol:

 

[george7378]

Images are back up now too.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Just for my education, please: what is "to slashdot"?

 

[george7378]

Just for my education, please: what is "to slashdot"?

It's a nickname for the massive increase of traffic to a site when it is linked to on http://slashdot.org/

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect"]Slashdot effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]