How can I detect and survive being “Slashdotted”?

Question

What\'s a good way to survive abnormally high traffic spikes?

My thought is that at some trigger, my website should temporarily switch into a \"low bandwidth\" mode: swi

Answer 1

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} slashdot\.org [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]