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The Terracluster image site was Slashdotted all weekend; I wasn't able to see any images until the mirror (http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/) was posted. That mirror is, as far as I can tell, still up and working fine.
The link to the main G5 Cluster site from macosxhints won't cause any bandwidth issues for them (it's mainly a text page), especially not compared to what they got from Slashdot on Saturday. The big problem was their image pages; they put up full-size images, and used thumbnails which were simply scaled down via HTML -- so loading a page of 10 preview thumbnails required loading 10 260KB+ image files -- ouch! In terms of future use of URLs, there's only so much a site can do -- if something is hintworthy and posted to a public server, I'll do my best to check with the site owners if I have time -- but it's not always easy to do, as many times emails to 'webmaster@some_domain.com' go unanswered. Besides, we don't get that much traffic! :) -rob.
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Well, Slashdot may have mentioned the site, but it didn't encourage people to suck down the entire library of images all at once now did it? ;-)
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Actually, the magnitude of the Slashdot Effect is well documented. Mere mention of a site on Slashdot is often enough to overload the server.
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