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What happened to iLounge yesterday?
We were Slashdotted!
What does that mean? The well known technology website Slashdot linked to iLounge’s recent article “Taking apart the iPod mini,” and the traffic overwhelmed us. Even before the Slashdot link, iLounge was popular enough to receive over 3.5 million page views a month, but the influx of simultaneous connections was more than our servers could handle. After yesterday’s incident, iLounge garnered over 200,000 page views, a new one day record.
Big thanks to Slashdot for the link, but sorry to our usual readers for the temporary loss of availability to the iLounge.com site. The site seems to be loading at usual speeds now.
Our apologies for the inconvenience this had caused.
Dennis Lloyd
Publisher
iLounge
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All your page hits are belong to us.
Posted by slashdot idiot on February 27, 2004 at 8:55 AM (PDT)
2
Oh, please don’t start that “All your base…” crap again. It was stupid then, and it’s stupid now!
Posted by Anonymoose on February 27, 2004 at 11:38 AM (PDT)
3
What games that from…i forget?
Posted by WhatchaBatcha on February 27, 2004 at 12:27 PM (PDT)
4
Yo got slashdotted!
Posted by pbox on February 27, 2004 at 1:19 PM (PDT)
5
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtml
Posted by Anonymoose on February 27, 2004 at 5:39 PM (PDT)
6
1. Complain about “all your base…” comments
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Posted by slashdot idiot on February 28, 2004 at 12:20 PM (PDT)
7
Sheesh, it’s a miracle that some of you people can even get the opposite gender to talk to you at all…
Posted by Titusgoldfish in Wellington, New Zealand on February 28, 2004 at 2:34 PM (PDT)
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It’s a miracle that people online have any sense of humor. Do I need to enclose it in <humor></humor> tags so that you can see it?
Posted by slashdot idiot on February 28, 2004 at 3:22 PM (PDT)
9
wibble wibble wibble
Posted by Mr Wibble on February 28, 2004 at 7:32 PM (PDT)
10
Does this mean that it’s time for some new servers?
Posted by Nuke666 on February 28, 2004 at 11:16 PM (PDT)
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I’d like to know what Slash Dot is running as servers and its specs… maybe iPodlounge could upgrade to their level, but I doubt it. I suspect it’s very expensive.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on February 29, 2004 at 11:58 AM (PDT)
12
can u say upgrade?
Posted by Cool on March 3, 2004 at 11:57 AM (PDT)
13
Basically. They should update there servers.
Posted by iPod13 on March 3, 2004 at 1:53 PM (PDT)
14
Yeah. iPod13 should upgrade his grammar.
Posted by slashdot idiot on March 3, 2004 at 6:09 PM (PDT)
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hahaha!! lol tell him to download a life
Posted by laurence on March 4, 2004 at 9:39 AM (PDT)
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if youre getting rid of your servers you can send them over here - i need a new comp
Posted by Peter Burkimsher on March 5, 2004 at 10:20 AM (PDT)
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iPodlounger,
./ is running on a cluster (home-maintained by the founders) and I guess the hardware cost would be dwarfed by the bandwidth bills….
Posted by pbox on March 5, 2004 at 2:31 PM (PDT)
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haha you guys are REALY funny
Posted by htjkhgfsrhy on March 5, 2004 at 4:59 PM (PDT)
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man i don’t understand any of the last 15 commends, goddamn geeks
Posted by joe on March 6, 2004 at 7:08 AM (PDT)
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UFO’s Dude !
Posted by retro on March 6, 2004 at 11:55 AM (PDT)
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