Solutions to Ease the DDOS Trickle-Down Effect?

dealsites asks: "Recently, The Electorial Vote website run by Andrew Tanenbaum was hit with a triple-threat. Not only was it Slashdotted, it was hit with a DDOS attack in conjunction with the busiest normal traffic day, due to the election. Netcraft has an article detailing the steps taken to mitigate the traffic. Andrew's host provider is also the provider of my site. I'm sure were are on separate servers, him a dedicated server and semi-dedicated hardware for myself, but I noticed dramatic slowdowns of my site during this triple-threat traffic onslaught to Andrew's site. Are there any techniques other than throwing more CPUs and bandwidth at the problem to remedy this type of situation? I'm sure I can't be the only one that has noticed this. Any comments on other similar stories?"

coral

[comwiz56]

auto redirect all hits to a coral cache

and maybe slashdot could post coralized links the in the articles

Re:File size

[Kris_J]

That PNG map is two thirds larger than it needs to be. Less than a minute with pngout [advsys.net] reduces it from 14,632 to 8,839. Also, it doesn't look like the page is being served gzipped. This can be done by creating a .gz copy and having the web server software hand out whatever the browser can handle, little or no cost to the CPU. All up, the site is probably serving 50% more traffic than it need serve.

Re:Deliberate troll...

[Morosoph]

Maybe Non-Partisan means just that. He also clearly links to a pro-Bush site. From this page [electoral-vote.com]:

I am a Kerry supporter. I am open about that. Despite my political preference, I have bent over backwards to be scrupulously honest about all the numbers, and have carefully designed the main page to be strictly nonpartisan. Only the third row of menu items below the map contains material that could be considered pro-Kerry (e.g., jokes about George Bush). If you are a Kerry supporter, an independent, a moderate Republican who is fed up with the President's fiscal and other policies or even a conservative Republican who feels betrayed and who has a sense of humor, you will probably enjoy them. If you want an election site that has a pro-Bush bias from beginning to end, including all over the main page, try www.electionprojection.com [electionprojection.com].

Re:Deliberate troll...

[dubl-u]

It's just as well that his site is knocked off.

Yeah, that democracy stuff lets the wrong people have a say. Thank goodness there are script kiddies to prevent that. We should get together and buy a gift for them. How about some nice brown shirts?

I realize that he's got just as much of a right to say whatever he wants, but it troubles me that some people are looking to this as an authoritative source of information. IOW, he's biased.

Having an opinion doesn't mean that he's biased. Some people can separate the two. And he pretty clearly has.

He's honest about his opinions, makes clear where he gets his data, and has a simple formula that he used to do the totals and the map. Out of the history I have in my RSS reader, his tally had Bush leading 14 times, Kerry leading 13 times, and them tieing once. As far as I can tell it's an honest effort to present the poll results in a useful format. He even provides the data as a CSV, so you can run the numbers as you please.

So unless you have some proof that he's fudging the numbers, maybe you can lay off your apparently biased accusations of bias?