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Nick’s Blog » Blog Archive » Some Live Blogging Observations — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:13:01 +0000

[...] you take the various low power machines that have hit digg (such as this), it has been shown that little is infact required to handle large amounts of traffic. My router [...]

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:52:24 +0000

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By: Antiguo Apple sobrevive al efecto Digg at Recórcholis

Antiguo Apple sobrevive al efecto Digg at Recórcholis — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:01:59 +0000

[...] Me encantan estas historias A Royal Pingdom.com, se le ocurrio utilizar varios ordenadores de hace casi 20 años como servidor web. Publicaron la historia en Internet, y la noticia acabo siendo portada de Digg. Al sufrir el “efecto Digg” (cientos de miles de visitas inesperadas en un espacio de tiempo muy corto), los servidores fueron cayendo uno a uno, pero no! todos no! un irreductible Apple IIci resiste ahora y siempre al invasor con tan solo 25Mhz, 128mb de Ram y 1Gb de Disco! y corriendo NetBSD [...]

By: vintage computer

vintage computer — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:28:31 +0000

I have a friend who writes an auto collumn weekly for a newspaper with my “old Mac Centris 610 ” ( with a Power Pc upgrade card , a whopping (at the time 16 mb of Ram). The machine works and submits emails over a dial up modem fine. He refuses any upgrades being very happy with the setup and its reliability. So much for Microsoft Vista.

By: MacVillage.de » MacVillage-Shortcuts vom 11.02.2008

MacVillage.de » MacVillage-Shortcuts vom 11.02.2008 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:05:12 +0000

[...] – Yahoo! will nicht von Microsoft übernommen werden (via) – Mac IIci: Uralter Webserver überlebt Digg-Attacke (via) Marc Grove Gespeichert in: Shortcuts [...]

By: th3g33k

th3g33k — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:19:30 +0000

You guys forgot this site http://www.macbsd.com

Acccording to netcraft, site was first seen on July 1996.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:47:46 +0000

Interesting! I didn’t even know that there was a first article about this. To be honest, I didn’t notice anyting go down on my Quadra 650. Maybe it was the internet connection to it considering that it’s my cable internet connection. But the machine has been chugging along just fine, backing up to a NetaTalk server.

Part of the downtime could have been me dinking around with it also since November (it’s not only just a little server :-p), but I would love to see it go down just for kicks though.

By: classified

classified — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:48:44 +0000

It’s so hard now to find or buy and old mac. good for you.

By: cmholm

cmholm — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:47:13 +0000

Any UNIXy or WinNTy server running Apache/Nginx/thttpd/etc should be able to handle a major Digg/Slashdotting, as long as it’s serving up static or smartly cached pages.

Frankly, there’s nothing wrong with depending on – say – PHP and MySQL to crank out dynamic pages in most situations. Getting Dugg/Slashdotted is an outlier for these sites, a lighting bolt not likely to strike again.

By: Hasan

Hasan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:04:19 +0000

Well that’s not true, the owner of the site said that the server didn’t like the digg effect and just panicked and DOWN!

Take a look: http://littledork.err0neous.org/