Slashdot Killed My Website…
Yesterday one of the news stories here on PhotographyBLOG was featured on Slashdot, the immensely popular technology news/discussion site. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the sudden influx of visitors killed my server, knocking it offline for about 6 hours from 3pm onwards.
We’ve now made some server changes that will hopefully cope better with large traffic increases in the future. Fingers-crossed, touch wood etc.
So apologies to everyone if you visited PhotographyBLOG yesterday, only to find that it had temporarily disappeared…



#1 steve
Don't feel too bad. This sort of thing happens so often with Slashdot that web developers actually refer to sites getting "Slashdotted" when they go down under a sudden unexpected load.
4:44 am - Friday, July 9, 2004
#2 Mark Goldstein
I was more upset about the lost traffic to be honest!
1:21 pm - Saturday, July 10, 2004