08-25-2004, 08:52 PM
Occhidiangela,Aug 25 2004, 08:55 AM Wrote:If there is a high demand on getting into your site, can't you, to prevent a Slashdotting sort of thing, have in place a priority rule that puts members in the que and "clips" non members in high traffic times?Actually, Globat did have this when we were on a shared system. Perhaps you recall the occasional "process limit exceeded" messages that would appear when accessing the forums sometimes last year. Even with this throttling, getting Slashdotted wiped them out.
The Globat rep I spoke to (after 6 attempts to speak to someone who would answer me about why the Lounge went poof) told me that the Slashdotting brought a whole cluster to its knees. No shared hosting company would put up with that crap, and neither did Globat. They were offering a pretty good dedicated server deal, and would just transition the site to the server for free, so I went with it despite the rough treatment. I don't bear much ill will toward them; they were protecting their interests.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.