We Got Reddited

Written on March 12, 2015

So, someone on reddit thought it would be rather funny to post a link to this image on our server at work:

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It was posted under the heading NSFW (Not Safe For Work). If you aren’t aware, that typically denotes a post to something inappropriate in nature. It’s work safety gear, so it’s pretty funny. One of the comments on the thread suggested that: “Their sysadmin is going to be very confused.” Indeed, we were:

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The original image was rather large in nature, so we were moving a lot of outbound traffic (a lot for us anyway). So, to mitigate, I resized the image, and did an http 301 redirect back to a custom (and very slim) html page:

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We’ve never had that much traffic before, and we appreciate the opportunity to see what it’s like, even for a silly reason.

Written on March 12, 2015