[pLog-general] First pLog site slashdotted

[Oscar Renalias]

no, no idea about it. And we'll probably never know. The only thing I 
know is that they are using plog 0.3.2.

But I never built plog thinking about withstanding slashdot attacks 
anyhow... Besides, no chance on earth a heavyweight dynamic script like 
plog running on a single server (that's most likely their setup) can 
ever put up with the heavy peak in the load generated by a slashdot 
effect.

Maybe one day if somebody sponsors the effort, we could start 
optimizing for big loads and so on, even though I think it's a 10% 
effort in the code and the 90% left is a hardware effort. Has anybody 
ever seen the current setup being used by Livejournal just to cope with 
the current load? It's insane: slide 48 of this presentation --> 
http://www.danga.com/words/2004_mysqlcon/mysql-slides.pdf

Oscar

On 24 Apr 2005, at 22:49, Benjamin Krause wrote:

> Oscar Renalias wrote:
>> Rice university has been using plog for their blogs for a while now.  
>> One of their blogs, called 'nanotube' was slashdotted a few hours 
>> ago:  http://blogs.rice.edu/nanotube
>> This is the original article that caused the slashdotting:  
>> http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/04/23/1747208.shtml? 
>> tid=191&tid=14
>> Guess pLog didn't quite survive the avalanche of hits...
>
> well.. thats not good news .. any information what caused the 
> down-time?
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