We are in the midst of our first slashdotting ... It's been fun ...

It's great because we completely sponsor the site so we are all over it. :D

Life is good ...

How high has the load reached?

50 at one point ... but it has settled down now ... it's moving down the page now ...

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly does it entail when a site is being 'slashdotted'? Is it being mentioned on slashdot.com or something?

N9ne ... yes, that is what it means ... and the server gets pounded because of the site mentioned ...

Lots of unique visitors - a good marketing opportunity, presuming you actually have a marketing head about you. :)

I remember a while back trying to get some folks on SitePoint interested in marketing on SlashDotted sites - but they just kept asking about pageviews per month. Some people just have no clue about what marketing opportunities are all about. :(

Got a funny feeling KIAHost knows something about it. Statistically speaking, even a small clickthru and signup rate with slashdot traffic should translate into a significant peak in sales. :)

As for a load of 50 - is that all? I experienced that repeatedly on a VenturesOnline server. Was not impressed. Maybe someone was getting repeatedly slashdotted - though I know a few hosts here will have a few smart comments on that explanation.

god i hope that never happens to me imagine the bandwidth cost of millions of people on my manky little site :eek:

I'd be more than happy to be slashdotted (i'm not a web host) as I have a small site on a nice server, so a nice rush of a few trillion users would do me just fine :).

It's interesting that WHT has a better ranking than Slashdot does (alexa) or at least it did last time I checked.

But the thing with slashdot is that when an article/site gets mentioned, servers tend to crash as tens of thousands of unique visitors swarm the site/server within a matter of minutes.

It's annoying how whenever I see an interesting article the host goes down due to the extreme traffic.

Getting Farked has similar results I think. I've had my site linked in just in their forums and I was getting about 1000 uniques an hour.

It's interesting that WHT has a better ranking than Slashdot does (alexa) or at least it did last time I checked.

Alexa takes it's rankings off monitoring people with the Alexa toolbar installed.

Since the toolbar is only available on Internet Explorer (which is only available on Windows), and Slashdot has a very Linux and Mozilla heavy audience, the ranking would be expected to be lower.

Maybe someone was getting repeatedly slashdotted - though I know a few hosts here will have a few smart comments on that explanation.

Is that a dupe reference?

Joe, how'd you do? Did the Slashdotting gain you any sales? :)

I have the high potential to be Slashdotted, so I had my host install mod_throttle. No worries about using up all my bandwidth in 1 hour.

Originally posted by Simpli-Erica
Joe, how'd you do? Did the Slashdotting gain you any sales? :)

Sorry for the delay in repsponse ... I was away for a few days.

Yes, our sales did increase.