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Efecto Slashdot

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The Slashdot effect, a term coined in the early 2000s, refers to the temporary inaccessibility of a website due to a sudden influx of traffic following its mention on popular internet^[1] platforms like Slashdot, Reddit, and Twitter. This surge often results in slower load times, overloaded servers, and potential downtime, posing a significant challenge to optimal web performance. The name derives from the tech news website Slashdot, notorious for triggering such traffic spikes due to its substantial influence on internet activity. Although less common today, the Slashdot effect emphasizes the critical need for website scalability and performance enhancement, particularly in today’s landscape of viral social media content. To mitigate the impact, strategies such as employing Content Delivery Networks, page mirroring, load balancing, and dynamic server scaling are recommended. As a subject of digital culture study, the Slashdot effect provides valuable insights into the technical consequences of sudden online popularity.

Definición de términos

1. ↑ internet. Internet, una red mundial de sistemas informáticos interconectados, utiliza protocolos de comunicación estandarizados, predominantemente TCP/IP, para conectar dispositivos en todo el planeta. El término "Internet" tiene su origen en el término "internetted" de 1849 y fue adoptado posteriormente por el Departamento de Guerra de EE.UU. en 1945. Los inicios de Internet se remontan a los años 60, cuando los informáticos desarrollaron sistemas de tiempo compartido que acabaron desembocando en la creación de ARPANET en 1969. Internet funciona de forma autónoma, sin ningún control central, y la Corporación de Internet para la Asignación de Nombres y Números (ICANN) gestiona sus principales espacios de nombres. Ha revolucionado los métodos tradicionales de comunicación y ha experimentado un crecimiento exponencial, con un número de usuarios de Internet que crece entre 20% y 50% cada año. En 2019, más de la mitad de la población mundial utilizaba Internet. El conjunto de protocolos de Internet, que comprende TCP/IP y cuatro capas conceptuales, dirige los paquetes de Internet a sus destinos previstos. Servicios fundamentales como el correo electrónico y la telefonía por Internet funcionan en Internet. La World Wide Web, una extensa red de documentos interconectados, es un elemento crucial de Internet.

Efecto Slashdot (Wikipedia)

En Efecto Slashdottambién conocido como slashdotting, occurs when a popular sitio web links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily become unavailable. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – common causes are lack of sufficient data bandwidth, servidores that fail to cope with the high number of requests, and traffic quotas. Sites that are maintained on shared hosting services often fail when confronted with the Slashdot effect. This has the same effect as a denial-of-service attack, albeit accidentally. The name stems from the huge influx of web traffic which would result from the technology news site Slashdot linking to websites. The term flash crowd is a more generic term.

The original circumstances have changed, as flash crowds from Slashdot were reported in 2005 to be diminishing due to competition from similar sites, and the general adoption of elastically scalable cloud hosting platforms.

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