Have a script write an activity report every night. Better, create some nice graphs out of it, and assign someone to examine the reports and graphs first thing in the morning. This will help keep an eye on those events you are not actively verifying. Use adequate tools if you decide to...
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute. Although this kind of traffic is out of the ordinary for most sites, it isn’t enough to crash a well-configured Apache web server. Sites usually fail for the following reasons: Not ...