bluemonq
02-05-2004, 11:25 PM
i can't find the article anymore, but there was some guy who wrote up an article on being "googled"...and we're not talking getting information. some people here might know about slashdot.org; it's a news site for nerds. whenever someone posts and article, thousands of people click on any links included, usually bringing down a site to its knees, and sometimes sending it offline; hence the term "slashdotted". well, a few days ago, there was this fractally-decorated google image (one of my friend's friend does these cool decorated logos). it was some fractal mathemetician's bday (2/2) apparently hundreds of thousands of people tried to visit the site. the owners ended up having to move the site to another url to prevent the machine from crashing. this was essentially a DDoS, if unintentionally.
questions:
1) Does google have a responsibility for monitoring traffic like this?
2) Do you agree with me that, on some level, this is sort of funny?
3a) (directed toward achtungbaby, or anyone else who knows) Could yw handle a traffic flood like that?
3b) If the answer to 3a) was "yes", would we want that to happen?
questions:
1) Does google have a responsibility for monitoring traffic like this?
2) Do you agree with me that, on some level, this is sort of funny?
3a) (directed toward achtungbaby, or anyone else who knows) Could yw handle a traffic flood like that?
3b) If the answer to 3a) was "yes", would we want that to happen?