[racket-dev] can racket-lang.org survive a slashdotting?

From: Jos Koot (jos.koot at telefonica.net)
Date: Sun Aug 1 13:29:51 EDT 2010

I think loosing schemecookbook is a loss.
Indeed it no longer responds adequately.
Sad
Jos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev-bounces at racket-lang.org 
> [mailto:dev-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Neil Van Dyke
> Sent: 01 August 2010 18:54
> To: Racket Dev List
> Subject: [racket-dev] can racket-lang.org survive a slashdotting?
> 
> Can the racket-lang.org Web server(s) handle a huge spike in 
> traffic, such as if it got on the front page of reddit.com?
> 
> schemecookbook.org somehow got onto the front page of 
> reddit.com briefly, which seems to have killed 
> schemecookbook.org.  This is no big loss, since I think 
> schemecookbook.org gives a bad impression even when it's 
> working.  However, I'd hate for racket-lang.org to get its 
> potential 15 minutes of fame, but burn out before sifting a 
> new batch of users out of the gazillion casual browsers.
> 
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