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Offline michal

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OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« on: July 10, 2012, 08:05:41 am »
OpenMW is project similar to OpenXcom - they're making open source engine for Morrowind game. There site recently died from slashdot effect "Normally we get 10,000 page views a month, and because of slashdot we had 2,500 in one day."

OpenXcom stats for June: ~ 3500 visitors (2700 unique) and 6500 page views  (4700 unique)

I wonder what would happen if somebody would post OpenXcom on Slashdot ;)

https://openmw.org/en/

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/07/04/0224210/open-source-morrowind-version-0160-released
« Last Edit: July 10, 2012, 08:33:21 am by michal »

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 09:42:59 pm »
I think ninex will not like us if we kill his server by small DDOS attack form slashdot :>

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2012, 09:50:03 pm »
I could provide a mirror for the website, though I have no idea of how much can my server take.

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2012, 10:10:59 am »
I could provide a mirror for the website, though I have no idea of how much can my server take.

in last 2 months we got indirect ddos from wykop.pl, about ~2000 req/s
i don't have this in piwik stats, cause requests was for screenshots only directed by other site.
Our server are protected by reverse proxy (squid actually) on top of apache.

Offline michal

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2012, 11:23:51 am »
So, who will post about OpenXcom  on slashdot when 0.4 will be released? ;)

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2012, 11:41:20 am »
Depending on who will still be alive at 0.4 release, 'caus I'm getting old, SupSuper is the youngest  ;D

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 08:37:41 am »
Ok, 0.4 is released. Who has slashdot account? ;)

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 09:12:19 am »
I did register OpenXCom at freecode.com(formerly known as freshmeat).
If SupSuper or Daiky want to have admin rights there I can do that.

https://freecode.com/projects/openxcom

I thought about posting an anouncement for the 0.4 release.
Less traffic than slashdot, but... should I?

Offline michal

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2012, 09:13:33 am »
Well, why not? :)

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2012, 11:56:21 am »
I posted it.
Indirectly it means it is also on slashdot, since there is a small sidebar on slashdot lising freecode projects.
But I do not think that many people look at that.
Lets see what happens.

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Re: OpenXcom on Slashdot? ;)
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2012, 08:09:07 am »
So far 183 visits from freecode.