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Surviving the Slashdot Effect
Posted October 26, 2004 – 10:47 am by Yakov Shafranovich in TechnologyYesterday my blog entry about Sender-ID was Slashdoted. It was interesting to survive the famous “Slashdot effect” (perhaps I should make a badge). How did I do it?
I used the PlanetLab network to link to my entry on Slashdot so it will not get overwhelmed and also changed the image links in my MT template to point to PlanetLab. The only real measure of the number of visitors that I had is the Google AdSense report for the ads running in my blog. According to those reports (excluding any other mirrors of my entry such as MirrorDot which takes out the ads), there were 3,287 visitors yesterday and 6,361 12,826 today for a total of 9,648 16113 visitors. According to WebSiteOptimization.com’s analyze service the total size of that blog entry was 33 KB with all the images, CSS stylesheets and scripts. This would make for a total of 326,025,216 544,490,496 bytes or 326 544 MBs of bandwidth saved via the PlanetLab system. A large number but survivable.
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