How can I detect and survive being “Slashdotted”?

Question

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: swi

Answer 1

Increase the level of caching from the DB so that the content might me slightly more out of date but faster accessed. Naturally, this only applies if the content does not have to be 100% consistent.