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- ExSlashdotter, on 10/10/2007, -5/+214I think its awesome that this site (high-scalability.com) is down now.
- orly, on 10/10/2007, -11/+112the irony of this site already being down is perfect
- Evari, on 10/10/2007, -6/+100dugg for being down
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -5/+95Maybe Digg's servers can handle it, but Digg's new comment could use some "optimization".
Watch out, it's about to crash again!
'Your session has expired. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page. Please refresh the page." - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -16/+61How many of you ***** are going to say the same thing?
- carguy84, on 10/10/2007, -3/+44Ya, I care less about their "high scalability" and care more about their sucky comment system and their inability to handle cookies correctly.
Edit, I also find it ironic www.highscalability.com is down :) - slamtv7, on 10/10/2007, -3/+41I am seriously tired of Digg's comment system. It always manages to freeze my firefox browser for about 7 sec. when I open multiple digg stories that I want to read.
- willcoll, on 10/10/2007, -10/+35the servers were overloaded with irony
- fugazi, on 10/10/2007, -8/+28If they know how why did they not implement it? *Server crashes
- TheBarge, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20This tells me not to follow whatever suggestions they have for surviving a digg effect.
- meanteen, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19What he said
- nobody554, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21Kinda Ironic, wouldn't you say?
- Pplus, on 10/10/2007, -9/+23Please, help me bury all this irony...
- futureb, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch”
- Jack Nicholson - MasterChi, on 10/10/2007, -7/+19Hmm, the very website talking about how Digg can handle the load and yet their website can't? Take the tips you gave and use them yourselves. Geesh, google cache mirror below.......
http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhighscalability.com%2Fdigg-architecture&btnG=Search - Pimpalicious316, on 10/10/2007, -15/+27how ironic, the site is down.
- Feldforschung, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12It freezes my FF up to 1 minute when I open many digg tabs at once. I gues it's because of the creepy javascript engine within FF. Pretty annoying ***** if you ask me. I was wondering why so few people are complaining about this issue. I'm about to uuse opera instead FF for digg, it's very fast. But there are the ads on the other side...
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -11/+21I've got an idea that will make me look original! Talk about how the website is down and how that is ironic. I'll definitely be the first person to say that and everyone will digg me up.
- jeffeb3, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14It's powered by crushed baby penguins. I thought everyone knew that.
- gharding, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11That's the only reason I dugg the article (seeing as how I can't read it).
- fpcyber, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10All very large websites have an extensive caching system. If it wasn't for the cache digg would also be crashing.
- oneblackcitizen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8how embarassing
- mojaam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The article is not credible since this had to be cached.
- xaeon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Almost as ironic as ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.
- juicys, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Not everybody votes on everything. And 1.2 million users doesn't mean 1.2 million ACTIVE users.
- jdibiase, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I get it with Firefox all of the time. Refresh doesn't work, restarting Firefox doesn't work. Moving on to a different story seems to do the trick.
- seandfeeney, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9is it just me or is duggmirror not catching may aricles lately?
- markdr123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5As does mine.
- thebman990, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Same thing happens to me; I'm on a brand-new C2D MacBook, with no other applications running. If I open several Digg pages, FF will freeze for up to a minute.
- fLUx1337, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4lol people still moaning about the comment system?? I LIKE it.....is it because I use the "Sort by Diggs" option, and dont have threaded comments??
Anyhow, at first I was shocked to hear Digg only used 30GB of space, but when you think about it, 30GB is quite alot for the acctual info it holds (.i.e. each story is only like 200 chars long max, plus comments.....
If I could do anything this decade, it would proberly have a nosey at the php digg runs on, its rare you EVER see the php of big sites....cos to be honest, I always feel I am doing something wrong in my site....lol - SPThom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Problem is Duggmirror and Coral didn't catch this one at all. So unless you can come up with a "true" mirror that works, I'd say maybe cut this guy some slack.
- Sandurz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Sometimes I wonder if people read comments at all before posting.
- brundlefly76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I am really glad you had the first reply, Kenobi, cause you hit it on the head.
I mean, when you have a dual-core 3GHz Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, and 25Mbt fiber connectivity, and it takes 12 seconds for firefox to stop choking on all your javascript, ITS TIME TO ROLL BACK!
I love digg but they are also the poster child for 'ajax excess'. - spectre_25gt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Though I dug you up, this isn't an issue with Digg, but an issue with FireFox. Any time it's waiting on a request, it locks up the whole damn browser. Thank god they fixed it for the new version.
- frimple, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4damn you spelling and grammar!
- CBanga, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I would digg this story, but I need to go irony my clothes.
- schoate09, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5I only get that issue in IE. Safari and Firefox have no refresh issues whatsoever. Still, it's inexcusable.
- Wacer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I can thank the idiots collecting together in one spot so I can mass block them.
- subliminalurge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hear, hear!
Ever since the new comment system went into place, loading even a mildly popular story pegs my CPU at 100% for several seconds while all of the javascript gets loaded. During this period every tab in every window of firefox becomes completely non-responsive. - jeffeb3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Is this some sort of joke? or has the website already crashed? 41 diggs.
- holton1010, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2everyone complains about digg's comment system, if you dont like it try www.evda.com its digg's old comments done right.
- scatfly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i think the ominous moses/zeus charecter on the side reaching for the blue ball of lightning is awesome.
- larah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2for me, before this new comment system... it would load up fine without errors... now, most of the time i get timeouts... they need to re-engineer this part...
- jpirkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It really depends on your load and your architecture. DBs are notoriously slow, so moving stuff to faster and more web servers is not a bad idea. For example, our old architecture at a company I worked at had a single database server for production ($250K Sun 6800). To buy another one of those would have cost loss of money, so it was not uncommon for us to move a majority of "database" work to the frontend with caching. We often combined results and just filtered from cache instead of going to the database and our page loads sped up tremendously because all the work was done on the frontend where it was easy (in our architecture) to add more webservers and cache servers.
- bouche, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2if I had a nickel for every article that got posted here explaining how to optimize for the digg effect and then goes down, I'd have close to 2 bucks.
- zanvann, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2D'oh.
Wrong article, digg me down. :-| - holton1010, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2if you dont like digg's commenting system try: www.evda.com its the way digg used to be but with threaded levels.
- skankyBacon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This actually is ironic though, and not in the "rai-ee-ain on your wedding day" way.
- Surreal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4So, it was interesting at how many misspellings were in this article.
Secondly, regardless of the misspellings, it was rather interesting but it read a lot like a power point slide.
Nonetheless, some interesting bits of information. Caching data in ram and using that is definitely interesting. Using php to handle data joins is surprising that it's more efficient simply because it allows the database to handle other queries and not process joins. Seems like the overall idea here is that hardware is not always the best way to handle growth, and that the use of "accelerators" and other proprietary software is the way to go when handling a large database driven website (ebay, amazon, digg, etc...) - aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I've gotten used to Opera randomly crashing when I open a comments page.
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