blog.auinteractive.com— What every web developer should know about building the next Digg or Flickr - a condensed version of lessons learned from the Future of Web Apps Summit in San Francisco earlier this month.
Sep 27, 2006View in Crawl 4
So can somebody explain to me what is meant by the "Wikipedia consensus model"?---- "(many people contribute to one idea for the greater good) is not a good model in general and probably cannot be duplicated outside Wikipedia.".. why is this not working?
Dugg it down because it says nothing about the importance of how/where to host your website.You can have the most f*cking awesome website on the face of the planet, but if it goes down 1minute after being linked to Digg.com, its WORTHLESS!I am so tired of websites linked to digg that go down because of too much traffic. I am tired of people hosting their own website on an old PC runing Linux and Apache using a residential DSL line.Spend the $10-20/mth and host your website on a dedicated hosting service like GoDaddy or your favourite one. Just don't act like "Wow, I created a web server, lets post it on Digg.com to show everybody how cool my website is!", and then it goes down because 5 people simultaneosly tried to browse it.Any article discussing the content of a website without the importance and necessity of how to host your website so that its AVAILABLE for viewing is worthless tripe in my opinion.
Good lord, the digg arrogance effect is in full affect today. Does anyone really think that posting "your site sucks becasue it can't handle the digg effect!" does anygood? It's shared hosting blog site so relax about it being down, go to the mirror. If you bothered to read the article its a decent summary of the Future of Web Apps Summit, and brought up what I assume our some of the better points of the con.
I love this: 2. [...]Obsess about your copy [...] newbie programmers unwittingly making 100 sever requests/sec.What's a "sever request"? Is it a request to cut off any access to other newbie programmers?Just messing witcha. Actually a decent article - not a total retread of the same old 10 things lists.
Come on Guys at least they've gone to the effort of creating a mirror.Some websites aren't prepared like that, or haven't ever Test, test, tested their websites.Carter
tdskateSep 27, 2006
So can somebody explain to me what is meant by the "Wikipedia consensus model"?---- "(many people contribute to one idea for the greater good) is not a good model in general and probably cannot be duplicated outside Wikipedia.".. why is this not working?
topher06Sep 27, 2006
Dugg it down because it says nothing about the importance of how/where to host your website.You can have the most f*cking awesome website on the face of the planet, but if it goes down 1minute after being linked to Digg.com, its WORTHLESS!I am so tired of websites linked to digg that go down because of too much traffic. I am tired of people hosting their own website on an old PC runing Linux and Apache using a residential DSL line.Spend the $10-20/mth and host your website on a dedicated hosting service like GoDaddy or your favourite one. Just don't act like "Wow, I created a web server, lets post it on Digg.com to show everybody how cool my website is!", and then it goes down because 5 people simultaneosly tried to browse it.Any article discussing the content of a website without the importance and necessity of how to host your website so that its AVAILABLE for viewing is worthless tripe in my opinion.
glindSep 27, 2006
Good lord, the digg arrogance effect is in full affect today. Does anyone really think that posting "your site sucks becasue it can't handle the digg effect!" does anygood? It's shared hosting blog site so relax about it being down, go to the mirror. If you bothered to read the article its a decent summary of the Future of Web Apps Summit, and brought up what I assume our some of the better points of the con.
thesakSep 27, 2006
#1 thing that will break your website: 5 script errors when your page loads.
bluebearrSep 27, 2006
I love this: 2. [...]Obsess about your copy [...] newbie programmers unwittingly making 100 sever requests/sec.What's a "sever request"? Is it a request to cut off any access to other newbie programmers?Just messing witcha. Actually a decent article - not a total retread of the same old 10 things lists.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2006
#1 EASY is the most important feature of any website, web app, or program.DisoverabilityI disagree. #1 - don't f**k up #1.
jo42Sep 28, 2006
12) Learn to Blow Bubbles out yer Butt
dunceSep 29, 2006
Come on Guys at least they've gone to the effort of creating a mirror.Some websites aren't prepared like that, or haven't ever Test, test, tested their websites.Carter
axelsegebrechtApr 11, 2007
Great article and summary. Yes, being dugg should also be included ;-)@ everyone thinking shared servers can't handle the load: they can! provided people's websites are lean and the server config is too.PS: Check out Markus reply to the comments above <a class="user" href="http://blog.auinteractive.com/digg-effect">http://blog.auinteractive.com/digg-effect</a>
findhostcouponsMar 22, 2009
It rather better to build than break!