Fwd: Re: [WBEL-devel] slashdot posting (was: Long- Thoughts on WB)

[Chris Thomas]

Don't forget, Apache has an option to compress web
pages. I think it uses gzip. Any modern browser
supports decompressing webpages. This might help with
the slashdot effect. Just google arround to get more
info on compressed webpages.

Also, if WBEL gets slashdotted, I would take off the
link to the main ftp site and only have links to the
mirrors and the .torrent. 

Chris

> --- Rob Sanders <rsanders@route256.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:18:17 -0500 (EST)
> > RftD <ramblings@sadlittleboy.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > That being said, does anyone have mrtg graphs or
> > similar that show what 
> > > effect the post had on traffic levels?
> > 
> > I'm interested to see the 'effect' aswell.  I've
> > never had anything slashdot'd but after having a
> > password trader rape a clients adult site and peg
> > and hold the nic card around 80Mbps, i can't see
> > slashdot on a small imageless site (without a sql
> > backend?) raising that much hell.  Are there any
> > plans for site mirrors?  I know John's stuck on a
> > T1, but I have to believe others here could help
> > spred the load.
> > 
> > The biggest thing would probably be everyone
> > grabbing the ISO's and giving it a shot, but being
> a
> > geek site I would think most people would take the
> > bit torrent route and be willing to pitch in. 
> > Expecially if we mention that bandwidth is
> limited. 
> > Maybe I'm just over optimistic in human nature,
> but
> > I think everyone would atleast try to contribute
> > back.
> > 
> > I'm waiting for a machine to be turned in off
> lease
> > this week.  Then I'm going to load WBEL on it and
> > try to help with the bandwidth issues.  I think
> its
> > the least I could do since I plan to use a large
> > part of WBEL, and I would hope others would pitch
> in
> > what they can spare.  I'm working throught the
> > holiday's myself, and getting our WBEL mirror up
> is
> > on the priority list.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rob Sanders
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