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Surviving Slashdot

10th March 2003

Scott Johnson’s Roogle RSS search engine got slashdotted yesterday, and survived the storm unharmed thanks to Scott’s quick thinking server admin Demitrious setting up mod_throttle to help handle the load. Demitrious describes the solution in this post.

Posted 10th March 2003 at 12:48 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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