FYI: Why the site is so slow

[Sponge]

There is a reason the site is slow, if people are wondering. It's called "slashdotted" (./ed), it's a news site with many visitors. If a link to a site is putthere, if often causes bandwith problems, and makes the servers "choke":

The news article about the hamster light:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/27/0536212&tid=222&tid=1&tid=218

[RatOmeter]

Yah.  I posted to let the /.ers know that Skippy was missing, presumed dead.

Dan, I hope your bandwidth bill isn't too high this month.

[kurt]

as they say in proctology This to shall pass

[ADMIN]

Hello all.

When we got Slashdotted at 4AM today, the bandwidth spike initially looked like a distributed denial of service attack, so the folks who handle our security issues throttled back our bandwidth for a while in case it was an attack. Once we found out it was Slashdot, they've taken the throttle off; so though the site is still slow, it seems to be performaing better now.

You wouldn't believe all the emails we are getting about the dang Hamster....

DANF

[Sponge]

Hmm, what kind of mails About animals being hurt, or how great idea it was?