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- hbeierg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+42i hope this goes down, not to be mean just to be ironic.
- idc5, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34did anyone else notice that his site loads up pretty damn quick?
- cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20I'm just waiting for the irony for when his sever goes down.
- Tabou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13These 2 are run by wordpress and have made it to the front page numerous times without a problem:
- http://www.techcrunch.com
- http://blog.digg.com/ - selrahc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Why are you in the Linux/Unix upcoming news section then?
- Scruffydan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Wordpress handles digg just fine, assuming you have a decent server to run it on
- hmmdar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I have to admit the blog page loads pretty dang quick
- sonaro, on 10/11/2007, -8/+17Get a good host.
- foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9BSD or Solaris will also work good if you know how to create a memory file system. If you get a dedicated server, its easier to find support for Linux than BSD or Solaris. What OS do you use?
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Dugg, that website loaded very fast! So I guess it works.
- cypher543, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14Here's a way to easily handle the Digg effect with your blog...
Don't make a blog. - foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The article wasn't about why you need to use Linux. You want me to explain why you need a webserver and the HTTP protocol?
- foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"Apache handles static files just as well as lighttpd, if not perhaps better". Uh, do you really understand how Lighttpd works? It users OS specific stuff like epoll for Linux, /dev/poll for Solaris, kqueue for FreeBSD. It is an event driven web server that writes to file descriptors when they are ready. If you get slow connections, you wont write as fast as you will write to fast connections. Apache with its process/thread (depending on how you configure it) blocks until it finishes writing therefore consuming more memory. You can do some reading here http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
- thinkingserious, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9A good host will not solve misconfiguration and optimization issues.
- thinkingserious, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I mean that they are not going to configure your software for you (for example, correctly utilizing the Word Press caching mechanism). I've dealt with many hosts, and unfortunately, they don't always configure the server optimally.
- Ghazi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6http://wordpress.com/notable-users/
- foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6If you use other blogging software the concept is the same, cache your database results to a memory file system.
What is "too weak"? If you get a dedicated server, the lower end ones are close to a 64 Athlon 3800 with a 1GB of ram, 100Mbps. That should easily handle the digg effect if configured properly. - Dankoozy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Use the gopher protocol and blog in plaintext
- abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5If you would have taken the time to make this comment readable, you may have gotten dugg up.
- underdog5004, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6ha ha, whoops.
- foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Heheh. If it goes down it will most likely be due to vandalism. This blog has been digg's front page before.
- abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm not talking to you either.
- foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"We currently host this blog and ThemBid.com on the same server with this setup and sometimes gets around half a million hits per day without a problem."
That is the blog + the site. That is sometimes. It doesn't say daily average is a half a million hits. - Niten, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Except unlike the mythical beast of the good insurance agency, the good web host actually exists.
- Hervard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's not a news site - it's digg.
- aknowles5139, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3ahh... so its just people running on ***** servers. I never knew techcrunch and digg blog was on wordpress... thanks for the info!
- DiggFight, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yes, the first tip is lame. The other tips are descent. Understand that this is also a proof of concept since his server is running these in practice.
- foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Hmmm, lets see, cause the article talks about creating memory file systems in Linux.
- snlildude87, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think you missed the point.
- froggiestone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3i dugg this, since hes site is still going strong @ 200 diggs ;]
- controltheweb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Helps you understand what best practices are when you shop for a host, and some of this you can do yourself regardless of host. Note that Wikipedia and YouTube both use Lighttpd on some critical servers.
Still, MediaTemple’s clustered server grid and reported great support looks like a one-stop shop solution for uptime reliability (that I hope to be switching to soon!) - blogdigger1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Sorry - comment is for the wrong article... cant understand how I commented on the wrong article... oh well
- tuxidomasx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4my $5 godaddy shared joint handled it just fine
*shrugs* - foobarf00, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Huh? This blog has been featured on digg beforee and didn't display an error message.
- bitcloud, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2A good host should be able to load share the same way a good insurance agency doesn't leave you without cover when your number comes up....
- pictureDIGGER, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3He wasn't talking to you.
- dolemite5005, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm gonna have to go with NEVER on that one.
- thailand1972, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2If you're getting that kind of traffic daily, then fair enough (you've no doubt got advertising on the site) - but for a much less visited website, just in case there's a traffic spike from Digg / Slashdot? Which blogger wants to buy a dedicated server just in case they get a traffic spike?
- shifty2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2well, obviously if you have a dedicated server and you can put your database on it and access to Terminal, then of course you can optimize your server for high traffic. honestly, i was hoping for better optimization on shared hosting, but that is almost an oxymoron. in this case you definitely get what you pay for.
- geekartist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1My point is that there are a lot of other factors that can effect whether a site survives too. All of this means nothing if a host has cruddy servers or won't let a customer have the increase in traffic for a day. Among other things. They can take some of these steps, sure. But it's not going to guarantee a site survive an onslaught of viewers.
- saltmiser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2yeah I'm for blogging in plaintext :D
- maffiou, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3http://duggmirror.com ;)
- catfarm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1i'd love to know what "half a million hits per day without a problem" translates to in terms of server load... and what sort of server power are we talking about here? scsi raid array? quad processor? 386? floppy drive?
- magus_melchior, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Well, you'd need to run the webserver on an OS (which is #1), for starters.
IIRC the main problem with Wordpress and many users accessing the content is the way it handles the database. If it isn't configured to minimize queries, a flood of requests can bring down a server (something like that). Now, if your web host only does static HTML and doesn't have a database backend, you wouldn't have to worry about the stuff the blog post talks about. - mossblaser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Then you're going to have to get used to it, the way things could be going...
- kevmaster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0How I managed to easily survive 2 frontpage diggs at the same time. An in depth article.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect - astrodust, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1This information is valuable how?
How do I get on the Internet?
"Get a good computer." - iapx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1500.000 hits per day that is only a peak of 12 http queries/second! loL!
That is a quarter of what a good written application of me was holding TEAN YEARS AGO, on Pentium-II 350!
Stop using frameworks over frameworks, bloatware, interpreter to execute interpreter of templates, and so on!
A Well-written PHP application could easily handle 10X to 20X this number of hit, in a Pentium4 monocore,having the MySQL server on the same hardware (shared). - AlphaDuo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Pay for a good hosting plan
- MavRevMatt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Buried as inaccurate, Wordpress =/= Drupal.
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