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How can I detect and survive being "Slashdotted"?

What's a good way to survive abnormally high traffic spikes? My thought is that at some trigger, my website should temporarily switch into a "low bandwidth" mode: switch to basic HTML pages, minimal graphics, disable widgets that might put unnecessary load on the database, and so-on. My thoughts are: Monitor CPU usage Monitor bandwid...

Delegated openid does not work on slashdot.org

I created an open-id recently on myopenid.com: http://axqd.myopenid.com/ And I own a domain, which reads 'axqd.net'. So I wrote down the following lines in the <head> section of index.htm page( http:// axqd.net or http:// www.axqd.net/ ). <link rel="openid.server" href="http:// www.myopenid.com/server" /> <link rel="openid.delegate" hr...