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- t0x2c, on 08/11/2009, -0/+29Which is 90% of the internet.
- djg38, on 08/11/2009, -4/+14The Digg effect isn't that big a deal. It takes a very poorly optimized site and very overcrowded shared web host to have a problem with it.
- asgardshill, on 08/11/2009, -0/+7Mirror?
(j/k) - t0x2c, on 08/11/2009, -1/+8Part of the Slashdot effect is that all your new visitors will decide you haven't protected yourself from SQL injections, and begin furiously trying to delete your 'users' table.
- mine4321, on 08/11/2009, -0/+6Really? What really kills most websites is that they're horribly designed and lack any real content. The trend lately is sites that repost someone else's content but divide it among 10 pages so their ad impressions go up.
- Elohir, on 08/11/2009, -0/+6Not validating your inputs.
I don't care how well maintained your hardware is, if you work on top of data stores and don't validate your inputs your site is toast. - skabyss, on 08/11/2009, -1/+66- 4chan
- Ravatar, on 08/11/2009, -0/+4Or a power outage, or a natural disater, or a hardware failure, or...
- funk49, on 08/11/2009, -3/+6Make sure your code isn't ***** and is full of bugs. Bugs=DEATH. Almost all DDOS's are from memory usage spikes or high uptimes due to poorly written code, not bandwidth issues. Poorly written SQL queries or joins...missing indexes on a big tables can do it too. Yeah, I know...obvious stuff but it's surprising what people can miss.
Also, get a real server...not a shared host. On a shared host, you can bet some other jackass 3 IPs down is streaming some porn. - MareNubium, on 08/13/2009, -0/+3Great article. Thank you.
- Callum2008, on 08/12/2009, -0/+27. LOIC
- gemination, on 08/12/2009, -0/+2How about this one
When someone clicks on a linking either going to a
"gallery"
"slideshow"
"top ten list"
And it turns out it is not a gallery script, slideshow script, top 10 list that is all on one page, but actual page refreshes for each click thru which is a waste of time.
Big culprits are
any top 10 article on a Ask Men site
Times
And any site that tries in increase their traffic hits by these lazy tactice. I uually get tricked into clicking on links to them but as soon as see what they are I close the window. - Spyder2k, on 08/12/2009, -0/+2Wow did you see that, how he summarized the points at the start. Me likes. More please
- cjflashman, on 08/22/2009, -0/+2"only that can"
I just accidentally that whole comment.
Is this dangerous? - MareNubium, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2I have just learned another lesson.
Changing the sitemap without noticing your visitor (if you use url rewrite). - flamingdeth, on 08/11/2009, -3/+5Digg effect is no biggie indeed, bacause diggers just come and go. But smth like Techcrunch could be tough, as those people stay and play with things.
- pizzapepper, on 08/11/2009, -0/+1vi. Digg
- lucasftw, on 08/25/2009, -0/+1my favorite meme that almost everyone else hates.
- shadowspawn, on 08/24/2009, -0/+1I don't know about this article. There's one item that they should've put in there but didn't, and that's a reliable, fast, scalable CMS in the first place. Yea it doesn't help now if your site is slammed (you gotta stay up and redesign on just let the servers kick the bucket) but CMS is ***** important.
I remember hosting on Netscape servers, IIS 3, and weird-ass "smarty" applications on linux. I was bestowed with a site that ran off of smarty. ( http://www.smarty.net/whyuse.php ) It made sense, but it seemed slow as balls and wrecked havoc on the servers of the day for what it did, p3 xeons and you were lucky to get anything more than 512mb ECC memory and over 10 gigs as a developer for a SQL box, let alone a web box. On a popular site that went up to a gig a day in logfiles, yes, it sucked. Oh you were happy if you hit a 1gig logfile a month, but by the time it grew to a day, you are ***** raw. And running on smarty *made sense*, but yet it was missing something. I tried everything from php to .net to mixtures and marriages. And keep in mind mySQL didn't even have stored procedures until recently. Say what you want, but that's why I dumped mySQL and went to MS just to keep traffic down internally through stored procedures and caching data sets.
You needed more than a 100megabit on the back-end for server chatter. So being on a budget and not having the benefit of weird-ass VC companies finances, you learned what you could do with the slowest of boxes.
And you didn't have a WAS or a caching box inbetween the switches and the web server, so you learned to code it. Instead of having a page that went and did 30db calls, you wrote out a static page if the file I/O didn't detect it. You just really needed 1db call per page. When your site is doing 3-4k db calls a second, you damn well should look to lean out any application requirements AT ALL and create static pages as best you can, and use "moles" for the db calls.
As much as I hated smarty, it was a good idea and I wrote my own code. I still use the foundation today, and that's why I vehemently despise wordpress. - SuperStromboli, on 08/19/2009, -0/+1I don't know why you were dugg down. That was all truth.
- jillkocher, on 08/29/2009, -0/+0I'm an SEO consultant and a common reason for changes in rankings/traffic/sales is "change" in a site's hardware or structure also. Thanks for the article, it gives me a new perspective when talking to my clients IT teams.
- Thorpe, on 08/11/2009, -3/+2Change is horrible - especially on the YouTube channel pages. Everyone commenting on YouTube's blog pretty much hates it.
- mjsilva, on 08/11/2009, -7/+2This only applies if it's a Linux Server, if it's a Windows it can killed withouth anything of those things happen, I've saw Windows Servers going down for no reason, at least none that could be easily found, as for linux theres always a obvious reason for services to stop if you didn't touch anything the most probable cause is disk space.
I always advice before start debbuging configs check disk space "df -h" - googooly, on 08/11/2009, -16/+4The only that can kill your site is Digg effect
