creativebits.org — Some good advice on how to build your website to survive getting to the digg front page. Includes web traffic details with Google Analytics and Alexa.com graphs from high-traffic digg experiences. Including one digg that resulted in 125K+ hits over a couple days. Something to aspire to.
Apr 8, 2007 View in Crawl 4
konstantinoApr 9, 2007
You know your advice must suck when your own website can't seem to follow what it's advertising.
bmeshierApr 9, 2007
Most sites fall to the digg effect because of a poorly configured web or database server. These issues can easily be fixed with a few tweaks. A few thousand hits an hour is not that much!<a class="user" href="http://meshier.com/2007/03/07/tuning-apache-mysql-for-high-traffic-availability/">http://meshier.com/2007/03/07/tuning-apache-mysql-for-high-traffic-availability/</a>
tylerlemieuxApr 9, 2007
Just thought I'd throw in a link for my friends Bryan Le and Dave Jakowenko, they run SurviveDigg.com and are doing a great job so far. Nice read by the way.
Closed AccountApr 9, 2007
I think hitting the home page with two articles at the same time was unaccounted for. Plus it seems to me some people may have took the article as a challenge to actually DOS attack it. Either way, I have to agree. I made a food out of myself. The server was down for almost an hour.
lifensteinApr 9, 2007
Your comment reminded me of Yahoo!'s upcoming 'Unlimited' inbox.. Are those guys really that desperate?
liamflyApr 9, 2007
Oops wrong story.
kevmasterAug 2, 2007
How I managed to easily survive 2 frontpage diggs at the same time. An in depth article.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect">http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect</a>
luisnarvaez582Apr 21, 2008
Nice article
sentersoftechMar 2, 2009
been a pleasure to read... I agree with all of the above
kid625Apr 19, 2009
There are few concepts within this article I like. Leveraging off peak hours is a good advice. Great article!!