Mae 0 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I've heard people say that they have had so many hits in a day that their server couldn't support it, or it crashed their website. Can this happen? How many hits would it take for that to occur? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TCH-Bruce 16 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 If your site happens to get Slash Dotted it could happen. It would take a lot of traffic to get you in trouble. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mae 0 Posted July 26, 2006 Author Share Posted July 26, 2006 What is slash dotted? And how "much" is "a lot"? Hundreds of hits, thousands, thousands upon thousands? In how much time? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TCH-Bruce 16 Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 www.slashdot.com If they find your site and write about it they will generate many hits to your site, upwards of millions. Unless you become extremely popular you have nothing to worry about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deverill 0 Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 There are some popular sites such as slashdot.com and digg.com which list sites of interest and they have tens of thousands of readers so when a story "hits" the front page, a lot of servers choke because several ten-thousands come to the site pretty much at once. That, sometimes called the "slashdot effect", would be a challenge for the TCH servers but just normal usage wouldn't phase them. As Bruce said, you'd have to become extremely popular to even have to worry about it. I don't know much about TCH's customers, but from the forums I know there are several pretty popular sites and none, to my best recollection, have caused problems with traffic overload. If you got that popular that it would cause a problem I'm sure there would be enough benefits to it to justify a dedicated server. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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