You guys talk alot ;)

[Pyro]

free software can be as good as any other software. Would you rather have NT4 or *BSD/linux running your servers?


on a side note:
"Monthly AnandTech receives over forty million pageviews."

"Slashdot is the largest online community for Linux/Open Source developers. Over 5.2 million users check in every month to read and comment upon an original selection of news that nerds can use. "


how did you expect us not to know, when the info is publicly available? Although I am sure these numbers are entirely correct. I'm sure the 40 000 000 is not just the front page....

 

[nd]

<< nd, I find it amazing that you can see our traffic even though you don't work here ? These forums are one of the most powerful forum applications built. Period. There are others that are powerful, but most of them cost 4-6 times more. We aren't alone but we are certainly in the top few. >>

Obviously I don't have exact numbers, but then again you don't work at Slashdot either. I think you're fooling yourself if you believe the Anandtech forums get more traffic than Slashdot, though. It's just generally accepted to be much larger. If you can prove me wrong, feel free to, though I don't think it's worth arguing about.

As far as the forum software, you'd have to define &quot;powerful&quot;. To each his own..

 

[LordMaul]

Hehehe, this rocks. Me, posting in the same thread that I got publically banned in....and, to make this not totally off-topic...


DAMN! THATS ALOT OF POSTS!!!

 

[ArkAoss]

well, zuni, is it really the strength of your software? the hardware? or the coldfusion underneath? because., it certainly isn't due to the users that this place keeps running.

 

[GL]

As of June 13, 2000:



<< Slashdot serves 30 million pages per month. >>



Slashdot FAQ

-GL

 

[DannyLove]

I'm impressed and I do think its the women who talk the most. hehe

 

[The Stigenator]

270000 damntime tostop neffing.

 

[GL]

According to Slashdot, dynamically-created pages are 40-50% of there total traffic. Some simple math then says that 12 million - 15 million pages are created dynamically per month(in the threaded messaging part of the web site for the most part).

Zuni, give us some more stats...I think you can make the claim that your software handles more load than Slashcode.

-GL

 

[nd]

The slashdot 30,000,000 figure is dated last June, but you can't judge stricly by pageviews (plus, I was talking about Slashdot vs. Anandtech Forums, not Anandtech+forums).

 

[Jason Clark]

Ive said my peace Im sure slashdot.org as a whole is busier than this forum, thats because the site is a forum (i.e the majority of the site IS A forum). What i meant was site to site.. AT is a busier site as a whole. Does it matter? Nope. The point was the software holds up extremely well under heavy load, a testimate to the softwares scalability, and the power of ColdFusion. There are alot of people that have made comments as to ColdFusions stability, this just goes to show you that properly written code, anything is possible. Just like php,asp and the rest of them.

nd, one more time for clarity? AT is one of the busiest forums, I don't think it can be made any clearer than that. Slashdot is one of the busiest forums as well. Us Slashdot, and a few others are the top IT forums around. And the software is only a part of what makes the forums successful, users is the reason we are what we are today.

 

[Pyro]

And the software is only a part of what makes the forums successful, users is the reason we are what we are today.
Hear Hear

But you should also mention our wonderful mods. As much as we all might dislike then from time to time, we do have to admit that they keep the trash out and the forums clean. And they do a good job of it too

 

[SSP]

And the software is only a part of what makes the forums successful, users is the reason we are what we are today.

Excluding the Hotdeals folks.

 

[nd]

<< nd, one more time for clarity? AT is one of the busiest forums, I don't think it can be made any clearer than that. Slashdot is one of the busiest forums as well. Us Slashdot, and a few others are the top IT forums around. And the software is only a part of what makes the forums successful, users is the reason we are what we are today. >>

Ok, I'll accept that... but keep in mind that Slashdot is ran on completely Free Software. Please don't make the assertion that Free == Crappy

Edit: Ok, so it was Russ who said that, not Zuni. Sorry

 

[GL]

nd,

I can't believe Slashdot is being run on Debian. I didn't think Linux would be able to take the load because of its TCP/IP implementation. I always thought it ran FreeBSD.

-GL

 

[Pyro]

It probably does run on FreeBSD, or NetBSD, but most likely a mix of *BSD and linux. and it doesn't matter much. BSD is still free software, same category as linux.

 

[Howard]

Just checked out your system rig, Zuni. Sweet, what kind of games do you play?

 

[GL]

No Pyro, all the systems (database servers, webservers, nameservers) run Linux, except for one. The only exception is a firewall that runs BSD. Quite remarkable. Here's their setup:



<< The Hardware

5 load balanced Web servers dedicated to pages
3 load balanced Web servers dedicated to images
1 SQL server
1 NFS Server
.
.
.
Hardware Details

Type I (web server)
VA Full On 2x2
Debian Linux frozen
PIII/600 MHz 512K cache
1 GB RAM
9.1GB LVD SCSI with hot swap backplane
Intel EtherExpress Pro (built-in on moboard)
Intel EtherExpress 100 adapter


Type II (kernel NFS with kernel locking)
VA Full On 2x2
Debian Linux frozen
Dual PIII/600 MHz
2 GB RAM
(2) 9.1GB LVD SCSI with hot swap backplane
Intel EtherExpress Pro (built-in on motherboard)
Intel EtherExpress 100 adapter


Type III (SQL)
VA Research 3500
Red Hat Linux 6.2 (final release + tweaks)
Quad Xeon 550 MHz, 1MB cache
2 GB RAM
6 LVD disks, 10000 RPM (1 system disk, 5 disks for RAID5)
Mylex Extreme RAID controller 16 MB cache
Intel EtherExpress Pro (built-in on motherboard)
Intel EtherExpress 100 adapter >>


Slashdot FAQ

-GL