Comment Norwy Post slashdotted (Score 1) 589
digi.no has an article about the slashdot effect on Norway Post, sadly only in Norwegian.
Here's an attempt to translate the most interessting in the interview with Carl Eric Fuglesang of Norway Post:
After the article was posted on Slashdot Wednesday morning, Norwegian Post went down. Mr. Fuglesang tried to restart the NT server - unsuccessfully. This has happened before by server overload. It seems like it get's "corrupted" after beeing overloaded, says Fuglesang, that also states that he sat up until midnight with representatives from Microsoft trying to get the site up and running...unsuccessfully.
Now he's tired of the problems and want to change webserver.
Yes, we have to get new equipment. Normaly we don't have more than 20.000 hits per day, but we have old equipment and can't afford to upgrade.
Hmmm. It seems like he needs a _software_ upgrade if you ask me. Someone should send them a linux distribution.
Here's an attempt to translate the most interessting in the interview with Carl Eric Fuglesang of Norway Post:
After the article was posted on Slashdot Wednesday morning, Norwegian Post went down. Mr. Fuglesang tried to restart the NT server - unsuccessfully. This has happened before by server overload. It seems like it get's "corrupted" after beeing overloaded, says Fuglesang, that also states that he sat up until midnight with representatives from Microsoft trying to get the site up and running...unsuccessfully.
Now he's tired of the problems and want to change webserver.
Yes, we have to get new equipment. Normaly we don't have more than 20.000 hits per day, but we have old equipment and can't afford to upgrade.
Hmmm. It seems like he needs a _software_ upgrade if you ask me. Someone should send them a linux distribution.
