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Slashdotted? (Score:1)
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:2)
No. I worry a little bit about getting slashdotted and hacked. Or vandalized. But mainly, I don't worry about getting slashdotted, because I'm not producing anything of that kind of interest. :)
This whole journal entry was about the fact that becoming a large bandwidth consumer at nearlyfreespeech.net is now less of an issue than ever, because it'll cost less today than it did yesterday.
But for the record, with NFS you have a certain amount of money deposited, and that's it. If a sudden surge of traffic eats up your deposit, your site shuts down, and you'll have to talk to somebody to reactivate it. You can never get a huge bandwidth bill, because you'll never get a bill. You pay ahead of time.
By the way, you'll never believe this, but your question is in the FAQ [nearlyfreespeech.net]. :) Under "What happens if I get slashdotted?":
There's also Why do you want money up front? [nearlyfreespeech.net] and What happens if my account runs completely out of funds? [nearlyfreespeech.net].
I imagine that http://www.bugmenot.com/ [bugmenot.com] runs quite a bandwidth bill every month, but they are still a prominent NFS.net customer. NFS is not a trap to make money by tricking people into paying a lot more than they expected.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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