[pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

[Daniel]

Use something like http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ 
to calculate the size of the page.  Slashdot can generate thousands and 
thousands of hits.  So say you have a 10K total web page size including 
images.  10,240 * 100,000 (just a guess) = 1,024,000,000 so that is 
about 1GB of traffic.  You have 3 MB so your server will die.

At that size you could take at most about 300 hits at once.  So to 
defeat the slashdot effect you need a seriously small page with no 
graphics.  I would try to keep it under 1K if that is possible.

The other side is the server hardware.  Much harder to predict how it 
will do under load.  Make sure you have the pages caching (default).  
Page compression makes the pages smaller but increases the load on the 
server.  I would guess that the server is not beefy enough to handle a 
slashdotting.

Daniel

Stirling Westrup wrote:
> I've recently come up with an idea for something to put up on one of my
> PmWiki's that might end up being quite popular -- possibly even ending up on
> slashdot or digg. I don't know how likely a scenario that is -- but its
> certainly possible.
>
> In some ways, this is both a best- and a worst-case scenario. Its best in that
> it gives me the most leverage in accomplishing my goals (eyeballs == power!)
> but if it kills my system, then its all wasted.
>
> Now, the wiki is currently running on a 2.8 GHz machine that doesn't do
> anything but serve web pages and handle mail. The total traffic for all other
> websites on the machine combined is negligible. Its only sitting on a 3 Mbps
> line, so there a real limit to what bandwidth it can see anyway, so maybe I'm
> worrying for nothing. (I really can't afford to try this experiment on heftier
> equipment).
>
> So, what's the best way to prepare PmWiki for a possible slashdotting? Any
> advice would be appreciated.
>
> At the same time, if anyone has a pointer to a recipe for including Google
> AdWords on a page, I would like to see it. That way I might have a chance of
> partially offsetting my bandwidth costs if this idea does take off.
>
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