Press releases can often trigger increased interest in a certain topic, and if a Web site link is provided in the release, this can translate to increased hits to the Web site. If the increase in traf [..]

Central editorially driven community news site focusing on technology and nerd related topics created by Rob Malda.

a website billed as news for nerds, stuff that matters, it is full of interesting techie news items. They once plugged the unmaintainable code essay and I started getting 250 hits per second to my web [..]

 If the increase in traffic is so dramatic that it causes the server to be completely unreachable, the server is said to have been "slashdotted."  

(computing,Internet) To render a web site slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site. * '''2002,''' Shelley Powers et al., ' [..]