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==Extent==

[[File:SlashdotEffectGraph.svg|thumb|right|[[MRTG]] Graphgraph from a web server statistics generator showing a moderate ''Slashdot'' effect in action in 2005]]

Major news sites or corporate websites are typically engineered to serve large numbers of requests and therefore do not normally exhibit this effect. Websites that fall victim may be hosted on home servers, offer large images or movie files or have inefficiently generated dynamic content (e.g. many database hits for every web hit even if all web hits are requesting the same page). These websites often became unavailable within a few minutes of a story's appearance, even before any comments had been posted. Occasionally, paying ''Slashdot'' subscribers (who have access to stories before non-paying users) rendered a site unavailable even before the story was posted for the general readership.