You know the drill; a small website with something interesting on it gets picked up by Slashdot and suddenly collapses under the weight of traffic.
Fear no more! Some bright spark has come up with Mirrordot, according to Wired News.
"Mirrordot works by automatically copying the entire contents of a Slashdotted site to servers hosted by Deru Internet, which for now is donating the required bandwidth. Following the model of Google caching, Mirrordot puts a frame around the mirrored page in an attempt to make it clear that what it is displaying is not the original page. Further, because many sites pay for themselves through ads, Jacobson said Mirrordot maintains the original ads and their referral links to ensure that any traffic would still benefit the original sites."
