Website administrators fear the slashdot effect (“slashdotting” / “being slashdotted”) — now slashdot.org, “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”, is down itself. Here is a screen shot:
Unclear what “Guru Meditation” refers to, but in case you’re wondering, the Varnish link generated by the slashdot web server goes to http://www.varnish-cache.org. Which takes you to http://varnish.projects.linpro.no, which says,
Welcome to the Varnish project
Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator
(The slashdot site was working again an hour later)
Just to be clear. The message indicates that system _behind_ varnish is down – not Varnish it self. Unless configured to do magic – Varnish will just show what the back end system delivers or a 503 if it can’t reach the backend.
Comment by Per Buer — May 8, 2009 @ 2:58 am
Hey Per,
updated the post to address who is responsible for what.
Thanks
Stephan
Comment by sw — May 8, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
Guru Meditation is a sweet Commodore Amiga reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
Comment by Freddy Bowen — June 4, 2009 @ 6:52 am