elliottback.com— Digg-Defender uses the WP-Cache system hook to redirect requests from high-traffic sites like Digg and Slashdot to a free global cache system.
Apr 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
There is better Digg plugins for wordpress. My suggestion is if your interested in a plugin such as this, check out <a class="user" href="http://www.wp-plugins.net">http://www.wp-plugins.net</a> for a larger selection of wordpress plugins and digg / wordpress related in specific.
While it's understandable that WP dies much faster than a static site, Digg effect is something way much more than that, it can crash a whole server and suck any amount of bandwidth within few hours.
I've had that idea for awhile I just never got around to doing anything about it. My method still used php but to rewrite rules for mod_rewrite on the fly depending on traffic load and where it was coming from.
True, maybe Digg can come up with a revenue sharing plan with the webmasters to pay for all the extra bandwidth! But I guess they can't really complain, websites are for the WWW to see!
yes, but digg users are known NOT to click on ads at all!in fact, that is the principal complaint of webmasters, digg users rape their websites and pay them petty change!
kozieApr 22, 2006
seems ded to me...be cautious, you gonna get some DDoS...
modsharkApr 22, 2006
There is better Digg plugins for wordpress. My suggestion is if your interested in a plugin such as this, check out <a class="user" href="http://www.wp-plugins.net">http://www.wp-plugins.net</a> for a larger selection of wordpress plugins and digg / wordpress related in specific.
Closed AccountApr 22, 2006Submitter
The "can I write this or not" section could probably be cleaned up a significant amount. The rest of the code is very, very simple.
mesumApr 22, 2006
While it's understandable that WP dies much faster than a static site, Digg effect is something way much more than that, it can crash a whole server and suck any amount of bandwidth within few hours.
drizzitApr 22, 2006
I've had that idea for awhile I just never got around to doing anything about it. My method still used php but to rewrite rules for mod_rewrite on the fly depending on traffic load and where it was coming from.
Closed AccountApr 28, 2006
Yeah site is up and working. Plus you must make allowance for the fact that it has many highly dugg stories. <a class="user" href="http://elliottback.com/wp/digg-me/.">http://elliottback.com/wp/digg-me/.</a> So even with protection it can go down.
aurousSep 2, 2007
True, maybe Digg can come up with a revenue sharing plan with the webmasters to pay for all the extra bandwidth! But I guess they can't really complain, websites are for the WWW to see!
aurousSep 2, 2007
How is it actually different from WP Cache?Doesn't it just serve it from the cache, lowering the server demand?
aurousSep 2, 2007
yes, but digg users are known NOT to click on ads at all!in fact, that is the principal complaint of webmasters, digg users rape their websites and pay them petty change!