[Techtalk] The /. effect

[Michelle Murrain]

Heya chix,

I am in need of advice. I host a website for an organization that I 
am a part of, and we are thinking that a particular thing we are 
doing is probably worthy of mention on Slashdot. The publicity would 
be great, and is needed.

But as the host of this site, which also hosts many other sites, I'm 
wary of the /. effect. So:

1) Should I care?
2) If I should care, under what conditions should I worry about 
"crash and burn"
3) What can I do (like, would limiting the number of apache child 
processes, etc.) make a difference?
4) The site is database driven (perl/postgresql). Concerns there?
5) Bandwidth - the site has a fractional T1 running at 512K, is it 
possible everything else gets choked?

Any ideas, advice, experiences in transiently high traffic situations 
is definitely welcome.

Thanks!
-- 
.Michelle

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