It didn’t take long for Ourmedia to be slashdotted.
Just what we needed with our servers already getting slammed.
Consensus seems to be: This is a pretty cool thing. Some skepticism about the long-term promises we’re making (we’ll see how that goes). Disappointment at the no-porn rule. :~)
I dove in and answered a half-dozen questions. Also posted a call for volunteer coders to help us build out the site … we’ll see whether that gets yanked or not.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
Preventing Server Overload with Drupal Cache Settings
One of the concerns that I have with a Drupal site is getting overwhelmed with traffic without the proper configuration. A link from Slashdot.com — a tech discussion community website & “News for nerds” — can bring a site down from so much traffic