Tom Pinckney, co-founder of Hunch, recently prescribed some tips on how to survive being Slashdotted. While Slashdot is no longer the biggest online driver of spikes of traffic, there was a time when it was the king of bringing down sites: a simple mention of a URL on the home page would crush most servers.
These days sites like Yahoo, Digg, and Drudge Report often carry much more weird, but Tom’s lessons apply to any situation where you are going to get a huge spike in traffic (expected or otherwise). There’s a lot of good stuff in Tom’s post, as well as previous one about achieving “consistent performance” that are well worth a read.
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