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What does being 'slashdotted' mean?
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It means that people are linking to the site, and it could not handle the traffic. They have either run out of space, or they can not serve so many people at once.

Of course www.slashdot.org coined the phrase, since they have a lot of small sites linked in their news stories.
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PhaseDMA wrote:It means that people are linking to the site, and it could not handle the traffic. They have either run out of space, or they can not serve so many people at once.

Of course www.slashdot.org coined the phrase, since they have a lot of small sites linked in their news stories.
Partially correct. It's basically as you said.. that Slashdot or popular Website links to a Smaller Website... and thousands of people goto visit.

But The smaller server / Website can't handle the immense traffic flow, and causes the Website to literally crash, making it unavailable until they either fix it... or get some sort of bandwidth upgrade from their service provider.
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