The day one image brought my server down

During the viral expansion of the “Richmond news paper editorial fiasco”, I submitted a post on the road.cc forum. In it, I had added an image linked straight from my server… What a great idea! Linking one of the most read cycling forum in the UK to my own domain! Lots of hits! … yeah, just that.

One image on road.cc...

I definitely need to do some memory tweaking there, because that single image, requested by the road.cc page views, brought my server to its knees. Not – good.

comments

  • IvanDM Thu, 20 Sep 2012 - 10:33

    Sorry, but I have to: LULZ!!! Too much "success" will kill you, as Freddy would say... :)

  • Matt Thu, 20 Sep 2012 - 11:05

    Oh I lolled a lot too! My server is so tiny it can't cope with that much traffic :p Bit of a stupid thing, but hey, it will push me to learn how to move EVERYTHING into S3 soon ;-)

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