Our lead consultant and CEO, Matthew Marlowe, had an entry on his blog slashdotted this morning.
Per wikipedia:
Slashdot linked to the blog entry several hours later and over 46,000 visits from ~32,000 visitors for a total of ~364,000 hits have been recorded so far this morning (~first four hours after being linked).
The blog is located at: http://www.deploylinux.net/matt
Per wikipedia:
"The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, is the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down ... due to the increased traffic."Matthew is an advocate of vmware's virtualization product, ESX, and became aware of a serious bug in vmware's latest release last night that could potientially bring down many business virtual machines w/o warning. He quickly consolidated information about the bug over several hours and posted a summary to his blog and the #vmware channel at irc.freenode.net where many professional sysadmins work together to solve customer problems in order to limit the fallout and push vmware to release a quicker fix.
Slashdot linked to the blog entry several hours later and over 46,000 visits from ~32,000 visitors for a total of ~364,000 hits have been recorded so far this morning (~first four hours after being linked).
The blog is located at: http://www.deploylinux.net/matt