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- towski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Not to be a jerk, but this seems like the kind of crappy thing I would do to get my homepage on the front page.
- Lemonblood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Shameless plug.
- Fosnez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It is dead now...
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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.subnixus.com Port 80 - invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5spam? or lame?
spam? or lame?
i just can't choose!!! - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5a story on digg about can a site survive the digg effect after being dugg?
-- a new low -- - thereisnospoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Apparently not.
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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.subnixus.com Port 80 - whalesalad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This isn't a proper analysis. Most webservers don't die out, Apache can take quite a beating. What generally is the problem, is that the database servers can't keep up, or some moron decided to put his site on digg for shameless self promotion and had a $1 a year hosting plan.
I despise Godaddy with a passion, but I don't think their shared hosting plan's are any more likely to go down than anyone else.
Marked as lame.. - mvprj84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I dugg it simply because GoDaddy sponsors Diggnation and it would be funny to see what happens with the Digg effect.
- so1omon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The thing that sucks about sites on shared plans getting dugg, is that you're ***** everyone else on that server. The submitter, by daring Digg to bring down his server, is daring Digg to bring down everyone else on that box. Nice job, *****.
- bollerwagen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4it does not kill the site but godaddy might :)
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -12/+15Of coarse godaddy can survive a digg affect....many sites that have hit front page use godaddy.
As for will they terminate you, depends....if you use any scripts/sql/etc that uses a lot of CPU for every page view, then yeah, they will probably suspend you until you fix that, but their net connection and server setup can easily take the page views. - jeffity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Still up for me. Even with emptied cache.
- kgool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I am thinking no, depending on if this makes the front page of course.
- ChiliJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Except that it didn't do well...
- omnidatacenter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Service Temporarily Unavailable
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You get what you pay for, anyway. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This has to be the lamest excuse to give your blog Digg exposure... ever.
I hope the Digg visitors moderate his story appropriately. :-p - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't you (and currently 186 others...) get it? He's doing this to get blog exposure; he'll hardly publicize anything for *us*. I can't believe how gullible some are even when it's blindingly obvious.
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Why am I being dugg down?
All I did was point out that lots of sites use GoDaddy and that even their most basic plans can handle the traffic because of the super high data transfer limits just about all shared hosts have these days.
Whatever, keep having fun digging me down for no reason - pgriffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Site took ~ 30 seconds to load for me. There are ads.
- jeffity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Do share what plan you're on. Bandwidth is pretty beefy there, but if your burst it's going to be pricey (even pre-burst is high).
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it would all depend on your plan. they are only going to give you so much bandwidth per month. if digg throws you over it'll go down, or you'll get overages charges....one or the other. either way.....you lose
- moojj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My sites are hosted with GoDaddy, they have been on the front page on numerous occasions. Everytime they have survived.
- jeffity, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5What is this? This is silly. I'll be sure and pull up your account when I go there for work tomorrow...
- fireball74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
"Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.subnixus.com Port 80"
Nope, doesn't look like it.... - kingborel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6sounds like a good publicity stunt
- rorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Worked fine for me, but so what?
Godaddy probably has all their shared hosting on 100mbit+, which means that with the 10,000 other myspace-clone sites you're sharing your bandwidth with, you should have 99mbit/s available bandwidth, so thats bandwidth covered.
As for CPU / Memory, I'm sure they stick 10,000 virtual servers on one real, powerful server, so you probably have 99% system resources free at any one time.
Also, this guy is serving up what appears to be a static web page, so there is no dynamic page generation, and the MASSIVE overhead that comes with that.
I played around with ab a few weeks ago -- my site, running on a dedicated 2.6ghz celery, 512mb ram ( weak server, I know :( ) chugged along at ~13 requests / second for dynamic pages, but would have maxed out available bandwidth happily even with sub-2kb static web pages, and delivered several hundred pages per SECOND fairly happily. The only thing I found was that I let it spawn far too many apache servers initially, and the system came to a grinding halt after eating all ram + virtual with about 200 httpd processes running.
Anyway, if my wimpy server handles 13 requests / second (780 / min), I'm sure a shared hosting server is quite likely to handle a lot more, for dynamic content. This guy just wants some publicity and he should have the brains to test his site personally, instead of requesting a Digg.. DDOS, I guess :P - kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am in London, England and it took a few seconds to resolve, bit more time then usual, but page loaded fine. that could be anything to do with peering, router going down somewhere, something on my work conn. not really reliable test
- invar9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Only took 5 sec to come up right now...............
- se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Allthough yes this is true, his site does not contain any ads and the first article is exaclty what was posted on digg. I'm curious to see if it can stand up to the digg effect and I think he is too.
- jeffity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They'll kill his site before they let it 'melt' anything.
- SimonDonkers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Document Size - http://www.subnixus.com/
Documents (1 file) 24 kb
Images (52 files) 856 kb
Style Sheets (1 file) 7 kb
Scripts (1 file) 1 kb
Total 887 kb
Ouch - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Well, it loaded much faster than this comments page.
- jeffity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sorry. I can't believe this claim. I known for a fact it's incorrect.
- battletux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It seems that some of the web servers that are serving this page can not haddle the traffic.
If you get an error refresh a few times and you should get the page. - raabco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3dugg, only because it couldn't be loaded.
- masskurec, on 03/04/2009, -0/+0godaddy is extremely overrated
http://xptweak.net - weiran, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2wrong, I can't access it now.
- yuppiexj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dead
- ElMoselYEE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2==, noob
- crossers, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0godaddy can survive a digg affect. Many sites that have hit front page use godaddy.
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - tuartboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1depends on the language, noob
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It is called server load balancing you retard. Perhaps you and these $3.99 hosting companies should look into it, the only reason the other users of the shared server would be ***** is if the hosting company did nothing whilst the traffic piled up and let the server melt out of the rack.
- huongdu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Can we get a net usage graph anywhere? Would be interesting to plot the number of hits against availability
- huongdu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Personally I think it's a useful experiment. Even if he was doing it for publicity, how many of use are likely to visit the blog after today?
- magister, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I had godaddy for hosting about 2 years ago. Godaddy themselves didn't host it. They outsourced to another company. It was a shared server that couldn't handle the load of a php based website with 4 mysql databases. Ran slow all the time. I ended up getting a dedicated quad processor p3 server that does a better job than godaddy's shared hosting.
- concept, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1front page = godaddy sucks
- calvinstiger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0The first digg
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.subnixus.com Port 80"
Second digg, ok but only with the text without the design (missing css file...?)
Third digg, finally works properly. - RobertBogley, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1ok for me now but ... wait until diggers in the US get to work. I'm thinking that server will be toast.
- aaronjay, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
- landmonster, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4Stupid *****.
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