Slashdot effect

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As Slashdot effect or Slashdotting in English is network jargon one by the readers a particularly popular site or of a popular social media caused -Accounts overload a Web server called. Other terms used in German-speaking countries are the Heise effect or the Twitter effect .

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The Slashdot effect or Slashdotting occurs when a previously little popular website from an IT - Online magazine as Slashdot or H is taken up and so a significant user onslaught begins within minutes to the website. This often leads to considerable data traffic being caused and the server temporarily no longer being able to answer individual requests or only being able to answer them very slowly. The site is then "geslashdottet" (English slashdotted ).

In German-speaking countries, the Heise effect ( “server was secret” ) is also used when a website is mentioned on heise online . Other non-IT online magazines (such as tagesschau.de , Spiegel Online or CNN ) can also generate similar data traffic if they mention a website whose server cannot cope with the onslaught.

Large websites that are served by a server farm usually have no problems with the increased data traffic. It is above all smaller individual servers that fall victim to a slash dot effect. Sometimes the Slashdot effect is jokingly compared to a DDoS attack. In order to reduce the rush to the affected pages, mirrors are offered by independent sites in the hope that readers will access the mirrors instead of the original site. Such projects are coordinated by Coral and MirrorDot .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Curse of Small Pixels and Inflationary Commenting - Weblog article at Alles Roger , September 19, 2007
  2. ↑ The HEISE effect ( memento of the original from August 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Weblog entry at jurabilis , from February 20, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / s9y.jurabilis.de
  3. ↑ Twitter + Retweet = Twitter effect - weblog entry at netzwertig.com , dated February 6, 2009