viruoffice.com (a drupal site) is nice. See this "HowTo Get Slashdotted

"How the heck do I drive traffic to my site?"
- Ficticious McGillicutty, President - Small Web Business, Inc.

"Dude, I got Slashdotted and my server is borked!"
- Nerdly Von Slashenheimer, Borked Server Owner

Here lies one of the great ironies of the web.

To a small business owner, driving interested customers to your site can be a daunting task. After investing in an online brand strategy, slick site design, shopping cart software and hosting service, it's typical to be nervous about the prospect of drawing enough customers to recuperate costs and make a profit.

How is it, then, that your average high school nerd can take a short break from Everquest, write a one paragraph blurb about something of nerd interest, and two days later be forced to deal with so much traffic that mom's dsl router overheats and reboots itself.

In this article, I'll show you how easy it is to get slashdotted and what this means to the average web business.