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#12 Back End Trouble

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.729.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The entire internet decides to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man has to ensure that the website hosting Kardashian butt pictures doesn't crash. The sheer terror and joy of solving that problem. (Plus, a new Yes/Yes/No.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every so often, everybody on the internet decides that they want to look at one website, and

0:11.8

that they all want to do it at the same time.

0:14.0

Sometimes the site crashes, sometimes it survives.

0:17.3

If it survives, it's usually because of a guy like Greg Doss.

0:20.9

Greg keeps the servers running for a bunch of magazine websites.

0:23.9

One of them is Paper Magazine.

0:25.1

It's a little art magazine with a little over 100,000 subscribers.

0:29.4

Recently, the higher ups came to him with some news.

0:32.1

We have something that we think is going to generate 100 million page views.

0:36.4

We want to make sure, you know, we'll our server handle that.

0:39.7

And the answer was no.

0:41.7

No, it will not.

0:43.9

The something was four photos.

0:45.9

And I guarantee you that by this point, you've seen these photos.

0:49.5

So is everybody.

0:50.5

And I don't think I need to tell you what's been the biggest story on the internet for

0:53.7

the past 24 hours.

0:55.4

No buts about it.

0:56.9

Some Kardashians impossibly tiny waste accentuated by her most celebrated asset.

1:01.6

Yes, that's Kim Kardashian bearing a backside.

1:04.6

A photo of Kim Kardashian's.

1:06.5

Okay.

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