Not to rain on your parade, but developers.slashdot is not the "full" slashdot effect. The full slashdot effect (from personal experience getting http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good... slashdotted) happens when you're on the front page of slashdot, and results in about 100-150k visitors from slashdot itself, accompanied by another 20-50k visitors from other sites that pick up the story. If you get front-page-slashdotted, you'll probably also get dugg and redditted at the same time.
For the record, danieltenner.com has had 50k visitors in a day from just reddit + HN...
The problem also usually comes up when comments start to add up (another reason why disqus rocks). http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good... had a couple of hundred comments within a day, and since Wordpress (it was on WP at the time) didn't cache them, the page load got excruciating.
That's not a problem for http://danieltenner.com anymore, since comments are now served by disqus, and the pages themselves are static html. I suspect I could take several "full" slashdottings at the same time now and still stand. Nginx is pretty good at serving static files.
The article was in the slashdot frontpage. It got only ~80 comments so maybe it just wasn't so popular. I am still getting hits from there and all round from the sites that picked it up.
For the record, danieltenner.com has had 50k visitors in a day from just reddit + HN...
The problem also usually comes up when comments start to add up (another reason why disqus rocks). http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good... had a couple of hundred comments within a day, and since Wordpress (it was on WP at the time) didn't cache them, the page load got excruciating.
That's not a problem for http://danieltenner.com anymore, since comments are now served by disqus, and the pages themselves are static html. I suspect I could take several "full" slashdottings at the same time now and still stand. Nginx is pretty good at serving static files.