Comments on: Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience

By: photogabble » Wordpress Processor Load

photogabble » Wordpress Processor Load — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:56:12 +0000

[...] I’m sure, but it did worry me none the less. After reading Brandon Harper’s article on Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466 and reading about wordpress optimisation on openswitch.org I was inspired to give this plugin a go [...]

By: How to Get Slashdotted and Survive Slashdot Effect

How to Get Slashdotted and Survive Slashdot Effect — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:12:37 +0000

[...] Devnulled : Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466 – “My server at the time was a temporary server built out of spare parts (I host my site at home) which was over 6 years old, so I had no idea what I’d be able to do with it.” [...]

By: Ever Wonder how to Survive a Slashdotting? - Habari

Ever Wonder how to Survive a Slashdotting? - Habari — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:39:33 +0000

[...] of us, since many a site has died while trying… Thankfully, there’s finally someone who let’s us know exactly how to do it, using none other than WordPress (uhh, yes, that is what you’re reading [...]

By: Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience « See the Post

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:18:11 +0000

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By: Actual Technology News Blog » Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:25:21 +0000

[...] Interesting article how a Celeron 466 handled a slashdot with little sweat. He did make some config changes for this to work though, but there is some good tips.read more | digg story [...]

By: Windows Home Server and a new kind of home server products at Thomas Nybergh’s pages

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:16:58 +0000

[...] I also take for granted that WHS has some quirks making it barely usable for Unixy people, and by the way, what kind of an operating system requires a minimum of 512 megabytes of RAM and a Pentium III processor to sit on a network to serve a web interface and files? Again, one of my favorite examples of what real software can do, is this story by a guy whose Celeron 466 MHz box running FreeBSD almost survived the owner’s WordPress blog being featured on Slashdot. [...]

By: Photogabble » Wordpress Processor Load

Photogabble » Wordpress Processor Load — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:26:52 +0000

[...] I never before thought about installing somthing like this, the idea that the content which my visitors would be viewing isn’t live troubled me slightly as I update my blog several times a day and like to think that as soon as I press publish it’s live. A silly notion I’m sure, but it did worry me none the less. After reading Brandon Harper’s article on Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466 and reading about wordpress optimisation on openswitch.org I was inspired to give this plugin a go because other than reducing the number of content based plugins I use there is very little else I can do to minimise the amount that apahce2 hits the mysql database. The benifit of this plugin is that it entirely removes the mysql interaction with the page for as long as you wish the page to be cached for. I chose a safe time of ten minutes however if one where to get dugg then a cache timeout of an hour or so would more likely be advisable as then the advantage would be felt for longer instead of ten minutes of low load and then a minute of high load as the page is cached again with no change. It would be nice to see how it handles new post and comments, and wether it updates the cache when they are created. [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:29:35 +0000

A very interesting article, I have followed a couple of your suggestions and are currently benchmarking the improvments. Not likely that I will ever be dugg but it’s always nice to know that ones server is ticking over the best it can.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:52:45 +0000

Brandon, iThankyou for this informative post which actually was what made me want to try WordPress with WP-Cache. I'm not a computer scientist, but I find the whole idea of not caching dynamic content utterly bizarre, and I would never have stuck with a CMS that doesn't have any caching abilities to host my site on my home server. It's a fairly fast machine, an Athlon XP 1900+ running Linux, but trying out WordPress without caching made me feel unsafe every time I generated some reloads in my browser while watching top's real-time output... However, to whom it may concern, I run into a slight problem while trying to use WP-Cache 2.0 on WordPress 2, the feared blank/empty page error. I googled a bit and found to my problem, which turned out to be PHP5-related.

By: duel

duel — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:39:13 +0000

w3rd, slashd0t.0rg