Mirror, in preparation for slashdottting.

TheRoDent

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As mentioned in this: http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=24793 thread, Gldm's article submission to slashdot.org has been accepted. Of course, it could still not make it to the /. frontpage, but chances are good.

Anticipating a large volume of traffic that may be heading towards myadsl.co.za's way, I've created a static html mirror of the front page, and the first level deep stories directly linked from that.

RPM, if you find myadsl.co.za not coping with the load, feel free to add the following line to "/nephp/index.php", right at the top:

Code:
header("Location: http://myadsl.rodent.za.net/index.html@" . $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]); exit;

This will redirect the frontpage, and first level stories to a statically copied version which I have archived on my server. Any deeper level links will still go back to the normal site. This is just a "fallback" in case the server load gets too high.

The current myadsl frontpage is pretty query intensive from what I can gather, and mysql might just fall over due to connection limits.
 
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Hi TheRoDent

Thanks a bunch for taking the initiative here... Lets hope the site holds up :-)

Regards,

RPM
 
I'm sure we'll be reasonably ok... This is just a preemptive strike. :) One can never be too careful when getting slashdotted. I've had it before with a Linux FPS game I'm involved with, and it can get pretty intense.
 
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What about letting Hetzner know about the possible /. , maybe they can gear up on their side?
 
i'd be willing to mirror some of it as well. I have two servers in the US with around 100 gigs worth of bandwidth just sitting there...
 
One of these days MyADSL is going to make top news on slashdot ;-)
 
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