wraithgar's Journal: My 15 minutes of fame

Well, apparently somebody out there found my site. Slashdot just linked to my website. Good thing I hosted it on a friend's server, and not my own :D.

Fritzy's box is holding up quite nicely, considering it's not really enterprise equipment, and it was never intended to be a site that more than 20 people even knew about.

Ok, my 15 minutes is up. Time to go back to life.

--Gar

But who am I?

[I_Love_Pocky!]

Surely you can't know too many people who have a craving for the wonderful Japaneese treat (pocky). But then, I know that you never knew that about me anyway.

Surely it had to be an insider of some sort... Who else would know about sysadminco?

I kind of hesitated about submiting the link, because I suspected that it would slashdot your site into the ground. Seems to have held up fairly well to me...

Unfortunately it seems that the average /.er didn't find the site nearly as funny as I did. I sense tha

Re:But who am I?

[wraithgar]

I didn't take it too personally. Most people missed the obvious, which was that we were not complaining about average users (it's implied that they're dumb, we accept that), but Techs... who are supposed to know things.
Just remember: Those who *read* slashdot are generally smart. Those who *post* on slashdot are generally kids.

For the record. Fritzy upped mysql's max connections, and it hasn't dropped a page since. When this dies down, there will definately be a page devoted to graphs of the logs.

--Ga

Re:But who am I?

[I_Love_Pocky!]

Most people missed the obvious, which was that we were not complaining about average users.
I noticed that too. I suppose my story was a bit misleading. I said it was directed to non-tech sorts of people. In my mind "techs" are non-technical sorts of people (but they should be technical, which is why the site is so funny in the first place). I guess most readers (probably the ones who couldn't actually read the site thanks to the SQL user limit) assumed it was attacking users.

By the way, if you didn'

Re:But who am I?

[wraithgar]

Ha! I would have never guessed.

My wife wants to know if you have ever tried "Hello Panda", if you like pocky so much.

BTW, go to sysadminco.com/stats/
I ran it an hour ago, and will re-run it tomorrow. Pretty interesting how much traffic it caused.

Thanks man. You really made my day.

Re:But who am I?

[I_Love_Pocky!]

I haven't tried Hello Panda... I will if it is anything like pocky.

Those stats were awesome... All I did was type up a short paragraph, and it caused March to have nearly 120X as many visits as the next highest month on the chart (and on the 5th day of the month no less). Who knew it was so easy to be popular.

Where/on what are you guys hosting that site? I hope I haven't caused any problems with bandwidth/month limits (my other chief concern with this endevour).

I was thinking about giving you a he

Re:But who am I?

[wraithgar]

I'm hosting it on a friend's box which he's in turn collocating w/ a mom-and-pop service in the Coulee area that's sitting on the NoaNet fiber ring. Bandwidth wasn't TOO much of a deal, from what I can see:
http://www.bigdam.net/stats/cs/work/cs_16.h t ml
That's like a 768 dsl user peaking his usage. Not much, really.

The hell came on the box itself. Hundreds of thousands of requests in under 2 hours. My friend couldn't even taik the log, cause his diddly cell-phone internet connection couldn't keep up.

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