Posted April 20th, 2005 @ 09:56am by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: If you knew you were going to be slashdotted, could you make money from it?
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Posted 20 Apr 2005 at 11:51am #
I could only really think of a donate button or google ads (or similar) as a way of making money, and hell yes. Unless it was an article on ethics or against advertising or something similarily ironic. I gots to pay my server bills you know!
However, my one and only slashdotting had me thinking more along the lines of 'wow, a load of 160', 'how do I keep apache up' and 'oh $deity why didn't I use mod_perl' instead of wondering how to make $$ 🙂
Posted 21 Apr 2005 at 7:26pm #
I think I'd try and sell advertising with something like google ads or similar.
But I agree with the first poster - the first concern is the infrastructure handling the increased load!
Posted 23 Apr 2005 at 12:53am #
No