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- matx, on 10/12/2007, -8/+52I stopped at the asp.net part
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25You forgot a step
1. Get blog posted on digg.
2. Blog about getting posted on digg.
3. Get posted on digg again.
4. Repeat.
5. ??????
6. Profit - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25I hate to say it, but the Slashdot effect can be even more scary...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21> Someone is an attention whore. Don't you think?
UPDATE: People think I'm an attention whore. I might be! Read my blog again to find out why!! - tharealmegaman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+201. Get blog posted on digg.
2. Blog about getting posted on digg.
3. Get posted on digg again.
4. Repeat.
5. Profit? - ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Well we can't use Dugg, because that's just what we do here all the time. So how about we combine it with some british slang: "Dugg + Buggered" = Duggered.
Ohmygod, you dugg a site with 50 huge flash files on the main page. Duggered. - RJNavarrete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ironically enough... Link is down. :D
- joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If you'd kept reading, you might also have stopped at "dual dedicated servers," "Windows 2003 SQL Server" or "1 million hits in one day."
I sysadmin a dynamic site that gets about twice that level of traffic daily, with frequent heavy spikes at about 10x that level. It runs on one dual-165 box. FreeBSD/AMP.
Also, kinda lame to post a brag/I-dare-you "I beat the digg effect" but link to a Blogger page. C'mon dude! - p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The site survived the DIGG effect.
Where did we go wrong? - blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Maybe people should stop linking to their blogs?
- spectracide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i've never cared about something so little in my life
- jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7digg has the equipment in place to withstand huge amounts of traffic.
- bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I read the whole thing but saying that you are using ASP.net is probably not very relevant. I think maybe the fact more that you are well-versed in ASP.net is what helped you. So maybe that first bullet point should be "I knew a lot about the platform I was working with."
- jbrocket99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Let me get this straight:
Digg users pounce on his site and it barely survives so he posts an article about it and how he managed to stay online only to get digged again.
The moral of this story is that we digg users are full of compassion. - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Here's how I did it:
Don't buy webhosting from ***** hosts! - nmoog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was surprised that my wordpress blog on cheap-o ISP survived a diggdotting from a 2000+ digg... BUT the thing that got me messed up was that the zillions of hits each got recorded in the log files. The log files got reallly big - really quickly and exceeded my space allocation. Trying to edit any files on my site resulted in them getting set to filesize 0 bytes... and I the file i found this out on was the rewrite-rules file! I couldnt delete the log files - because they were in use!
So, if you suddenly get a large boost in traffic - watch out for this lil' gotcha! :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Is this because the story does not stay on the front page for a long time?
- ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8[edited/deleted: goddamn I hate digg's comment system. Let us reply to all levels of comments!]
- ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I seriously did too
well
actually right after he said it was as good as or if not better than php - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It may have just been the difference in stories that I had featured on each site, Slashdot sent over 200,000 visitors in less than 24 hours. That's much more than Digg ever sent.
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Like some here have pointed it out slashdot did i first so think it's only fair that they continue tog get credit for it. He didn't get the digg effect, he was slashdoted.
- conigs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about burried? Figure that the site is being burried in requests.
- kerplunk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"I stopped at the ASP.NET part"
hahhaahhahahahahha
Best Digg comment ever. - konspence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm, I like how whenever some guy in his mom's basement gets a headline on digg hosted on his server, he posts a report of it, possibly including graphs of traffic, unique visitors, etc. Do a search for digg effect, theyre ALL THE SAME, and the all get frontpaged.
edit: http://digg.com/search?search=digg effect&submit=Search&area=promoted&type=title&age=60&search-buried=on
Hooray, all the same crap! - DD32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well he doesnt seem to have survived this digg effect...... allthough the nyud site aint working either :s
and wouldnt it be:
http://www.portableplaylist.com.nyud.net:8080/blog/2006/04/surviving-digg-effect.html - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5slashdot = bigger
- m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You both forgot a step:
1. Put Adsense on your blog
2. Get blog posted on digg.
3. Blog about getting posted on digg.
4. Get posted on digg again.
5. Repeat.
6. ??????
7. Profit - m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not if it is a personal blog or something getting 100 hits/day and is suddenly submitted to Digg. The owner might never expect it (or he might submit it himself).
- mrivorey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, I was reading that thinking, "Is this a veiled commercial for Microsoft?" I'll stick with Apache and PHP thank you.
- blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Digg Effect
subtract igg,ect
Deff
There. I Win. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3guess he should have used php
- jmazzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because the site owners deserve that traffic. Although, most sites can't handle it, its really not up to the submitter of the articles to decide. However, adding a nice little menu on a mouse over of a link with cache links, thats another thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ads getting viewed, alexa ranking boost, etc. If all you care about is people seeing your content, cache sites are awesome, but, typically, people desire more.
- m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can tell you from experience that a 1.5GHz processor, 512 Mb RAM, apache, and a 256K up connection (aka my DSL) will not survive slashdotting when it hosts a 5Mb file.
- sirplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3too funny matx. i kept reading but had the same reaction.
um, why do anything on that platform? digg effect is the least of your worries if your site is hanging by the perilous thread that is M$ server "technology" sheesh. news flash, servers in 2006 = Linux / Apache or FreeBSD or something else free and stable and infinitely more secure. but the points in the article about bandwidth were good info for any newbie. and i thought it was well written and interesting regardless. - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love the way the page is dead.
- mattgilberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here's an idea, why doesn't digg, slashdot, del.ic.ous, etc. why don't they just cache the front page stories and change the url or the story to their servers? yeah it may cost them more money, but it would attract more people to know that the story they click will not be dead?
- m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My site didn't go down from a log, but when my site was slashdotted the log reached 600mb, and I couldn't download it.
I had 80,000 visitors. - mrivorey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lol, wasn't that the plan of the underpants gnomes on South Park (including the missing step)?
Step 1: Collect underpants
Step 2: ...
Step 3: Profit! - ApplePenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You *do* realize an OS has nothing to do with a hard drive burning out, right??? (read the site)
Tip o' the hat to the choice of drupal though... - linuxdaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Someone used "diggsplode" in a comment I read a few weeks ago. I don't remember who it was, and can't find it...but I thought that was an appropriate word to describe the phenomenon :)
- benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The irony of this is great. I didn't get to the site in time, but did it have any type of clause... "If this story gets dugg, i'll give all of you guys candy"?
It's needed, anyway - ratsg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This wasn't a "how to survive being digg'ed", it was a microsoft commercial
- bmcnitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps this problem could be partly solved on Digg's end? An idea I submitted to Digg a while back -- why not create AJAX Digg effect meters?
For example, an AJAX Digg effect meter would appear next to each story title and would show the real-time responsiveness of a "dugg" site by sending very small periodic requests to the site and updating the meter via AJAX. This way Digg users could see how badly "dugg" a site is and choose to visit the site later if traffic is too high. This would help both Digg readers and site owners and allow the Digg community to effectively self-manage the Digg effect.
http://brianmcnitt.com/wp/2006/03/16/digg-effect/ - rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.rhettnye.org/articles/UDOS-english.php
read this YO.
(digg it, too, becuase it is ON-TOPIC and not even on my actual blog) - ShaolinTiger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have to agree, Digg sent me between 4000 and 20,000 uniques, Slashdot hit about 35,000 in the same period.
Also about double the RSS subscribers.
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/04/slashdot-effect-vs-digg-effect-traffic-report/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If your site goes down because of the log, you were cutting it too close to begin with.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why do articles about "how I survived the digg effect" get to the front page?
Because we promote them there - its how digg works. Obviously it is still news-worthy enough to reach the front page. - TLPony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll have to say that he is right about .Net and high load websites.
Take MySpace for example, the had huge improvements by switching to asp.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/441074.aspx - rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BURIED!?!?!??
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