Comments on: You can take it with you: Portable office suite on a USB drive

By: VeryVito

VeryVito — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:56:22 +0000

Glad to hear you made it through, John. Slashdot can certainly be a mixed blessing. Not sure what your hosting needs will be, but if you’re in the market, I can highly recommend the folks at JaguarPC.com (Sadly, I don’t get any referral fee for mentioning ‘em, but I’ve been quite happy with their services so far). We survived a couple of Slashdot hits last year on a shared box. Never had the double Whammy though!

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By: John T. Haller

John T. Haller — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:48:47 +0000

Howdy. Thanks for the link. The Slashdotting wasn’t TOO bad. The problem was PortableApps.com ended up on the Digg.com homepage at the SAME TIME as Slashdot. It was pushing out over 1MBit/sec from a shared box before the host temporarily disabled it. I had static pages up within an hour or so. The site is mostly back to normal now. Sadly, I’ve had to delay announcements of two new portable apps due to the traffic overload. I’m looking into dedicated hosts now.

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By: m.r.bob

m.r.bob — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:58:12 +0000

Ow, slashdotteded…
I just hope they pay a fixed monthly charge and not a amount that varies depending on how much bandwidth they use like some sites do.

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By: VeryVito

VeryVito — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:47:46 +0000

WC2, a dumb thumb idea? How so? Sounds like a great use of a thumbdrive to me.

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By: WC2

WC2 — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:31:04 +0000

I’ve been trying for the last 45 minutes and no luck. Site is down. That’s a dumb thumb idea.

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By: mtbkdtbg

mtbkdtbg — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:15:05 +0000

web site 401 you with this nice message
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /news/2005-08-12-portable_firefox_1.5_released on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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By: VeryVito

VeryVito — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:02:40 +0000

Unfortunately, I think that was my doing (I submitted it there). Hope it gets back up and running soon, though; it’s a nifty little project!

You can obtain the Portable OpenOffice package from Sourceforge, though: http://sourcefo...ects/portableoo

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By: Kobus

Kobus — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:56:52 +0000

The site’s been Slashdotted.

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By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:55:03 +0000

sit e is down …. bummer!

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By: Esau

Esau — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:41:27 +0000

portableapps.com seems to be down. It just might be that someone took the
portable Apache thumb drive with him.

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