Blogging Roller: Roller survives the Slashdot effect

Roller survives the Slashdot effect

Nerd news site Slashdot caught wind of the JBoss Group's slimey business tactics, linked to three weblogs on JRoller, and proved that Roller can survive the Slashdot effect. This says a lot about Roller and the technology stack that supports Roller including Tomcat, Struts, Velocity, Hibernate, and especially OSCache. Via Rick Ross.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 05:51PM May 19, 2004

Tags: Roller

Comments:

Congrats!

Question: Why was it having a harder time handling the load from people looking for TSSS coverage? Are there more javabloggers out there looking for up-to-date Javaland coverage than there are ./ people who'll click through on a story?

Posted by Jason Carreira on May 19, 2004 at 03:34 PM EDT #

Around the time of TSSS we had some problems related to another application running on the same server as Roller. Before I realized that the problem was unrelated to Roller, I made a number of configuration changes and made a couple of mistakes (like omitting the all important MySQL autoReconnect flag - doh!). The JRoller problems around TSSS time were configuration problems.

Posted by Dave Johnson on May 19, 2004 at 03:46 PM EDT #

Thats good to hear. Just installed roller at work for our project blog. Curious, what kind of hardware does jroller run on to survive the /.ing?

Posted by Dan Campers on May 20, 2004 at 12:01 AM EDT #

Hot damn, we survived a trial-by-fire!

Posted by Lance on May 20, 2004 at 02:10 AM EDT #

This just won't do. I can't afford to pay for the bandwidth of a /. effect, so I need software that will fall over and save me the cash.

Maybe it can be an admin option?

Survive Slashdot? <input type="checkbox" checked>

Posted by Henri Yandell on May 20, 2004 at 03:28 AM EDT #

Damn Henri, but that's one of the funniest things I've read in some time. But I've got some feature creep for you: we should be able to specify some parameters for failing. Max bytes/sec, Max Requests/sec, Refuse Requests From Referer....

Posted by Lance on May 21, 2004 at 12:39 PM EDT #