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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27"Digg Effect" is an awful term.....I prefer....
Diggstruction - masterofnada, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Lets try and crash this guys server. :)
- LoneStar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I am the Diggzilla from Diggnation, and i am coming to cause some major Diggstruction!
- RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Yep, the site is down.
How dare he think he is immune to the Mighty Digg Effect, foolish mortal! - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Thank god for the block feature
- duckedtapedemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12stop diggstracting people!
- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8ROFL!!!
Dont listen to him!! Dead at 76 Diggs!
EDIT: Its not dead, just takes 1 min to load. - taro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm raising my white flag by posting a mirror:
http://ucsd.wordpress.com/2006/03/19/how-to-prepare-your-site-for-digg-effect/
Digg wins.. Orz - FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It must have diggsploded.
- Omega697, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8So the site is Diggstroyed then?
- cubbieco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you're really worried about the digg effect on your site then just use html and small images. You don't need to serve your pages out of a MySQL database if you know how to code html.
- taro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This is intended to show how you can fine tune your software configuration to achieve what seemed can only achieve with more expansive hardware. Of course, it'd be nice to have a new host with better hardware, but it lost the point...
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hardware is rarely the cause of a site failing to withstand a slashdotting or digging. Even the basest hardware can handle thousands of simultaneous page requests.
It's almost always caused by bandwidth restrictions. The best way to prepare your site for "the digg effect" is to get a decent provider with decent upstream.
Of course that's not to say that stupid mistakes like making 20 selects out of an unindexed table to serve a single page isn't going to make mysql put the hurt on your cpu load. - taro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mirror:
http://ucsd.wordpress.com/2006/03/19/how-to-prepare-your-site-for-digg-effect/
Apprantly, 512MB of ram, regardless of how you configure it, is still not enough for Digg. - BrackRotus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6So, here's my question.
If your site gets Diggstroyed and you come up with a quick workaround to get it back online, have you Digger-rigged it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8lmfao..... how long untill this guys site is dugg to death?
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http://www.findacritter.com - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6it would be hilarious if we gave the guy giving the advice about how to prevent this, the digg effect.
- ai42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Oh the irony
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4another very smart thing you could do is BLOCK FASTERFOX!!!
this will significantly reduce the amount of requests being shot at your server by fasterfox users.
how to block fasterfox: http://www.skattertech.com/2006/02/how-to-block-fasterfox-requests/ - Forse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's very basic info to be honest. Any good sysadmin knows those. For those who is interested it all boils down to this:
- Don't run mysql/postgre on same server if you can
- Run apache in threaded mode and use fastcgi php interface (helps with suExec too)
- Try to send as much static content as possible (be it caching or just use static pages)
- Buy ram till you can't afford buying more :)
This all applies only if you have small-mid size website. Once you hit mark of over 100.000 visitors (unique) per day you should consider second/third server and do some basic load balancing unless your site is pure static html. - philovivero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are a lot of high volume sites running on PHP. Maybe you should try giving a little more detail in the future (and a little less of a broad sweeping statement) about what problems you feel PHP has. Hint: You'll have to have some knowledge about PHP to be able to convincingly argue against it.
btw: I wouldn't have normally noticed your comment since it's at -3, but I've got you marked as a friend, so I saw your comment. This suggests to me that you at least occasionally say things that are reasonably intelligent. I'm surprised you stated something so blatantly wrong here. - lbft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The article says that it's on a 1&1 dedicated server (2 Ghz Celeron, 512 MB RAM.)
- valis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Moral of the story? The Digg effect is mightier than the shared host. *smiles*
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yep.....the server suffered a major diggsaster. :-P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The page is taking forever to load; kinda of ironic that the guy is giving info on how to prepare for a digg effect when he is experiencing it.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4haha, i just jinxed the site.
edit: it still loads, just takes awhle. looks like his solutions may have worked after all. - woodsy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3poor guy jinxed himself :(
better luck next time. - nfg05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4
hahaha love the irony. too bad this didn't hit the main page at, say, 10:00 a.m. on a monday or the site would certainly be knocked offline. - fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WP is the problem... not small sites or the server they are hosted on.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It loaded just fine for me
- search, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3what is even WORST is that he say 'especially to wordpress blogs' and he is o a wordpress blog and the site is down.
THE GOOD news is that now it seems to be up... but it still takes forever to load! - taro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just changed the title to "How to prepare your site for Digg Effect (Diggstruction)".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh...you win! :-P
- xswag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice Tutorial, your server is already overloaded!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you know you site is going to be dugg these are great ideas. I had a high traffic site link to my Word Press blog but didn't know until after the fact. It went down with the "Error establishing database". I finally got it to come up in the browser. I then did a quick "view source" in the browser, and copied the hard HTML code. I then made a index.html page replacing the index.php page. Left it online for a couple of hours until the traffic died down then put the index.php WordPress page back online.
- person, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can't one also coral cache the site before submitting it to digg to have a guarenteed mirror? And then extra mirrors can't hurt. It's been debated before, but it'd be nice if digg appended .nyud.net:8080 to the domain after it realizes that the site it is trying to navigate to is taking longer than say 30 seconds. Anyone for a diggcache.com?
- Ashex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, I'm not going to do all the other server optimizations, since I'm sharing the package with my dads site. But installing WP-cache made a huge difference in my load times!
- search, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3funny... it seems to be happening... the site is taking forever to load
- foxter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is good information, people. Give the guy some credit. I don't see 100 topic about this, despite this being a huge problem.
Good information. I digg it. - rrittenhouse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Yep way too funny :)
- podgey22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Oh so slightly irrelevant
- alienos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg just for the massive amount of irony.
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So it's not totally down, it's just been diggraded?
- anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Darwin's Diggiot Award.
- slantyeyed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3a story about how to prep for the digg effect . . . that's taking forever to load because of the digg effect
- defylogik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lol its called host your site at a real data center, not off your p3 1ghz at home. sheep.
- kevmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0How I managed to easily survive 2 frontpage diggs at the same time. An in depth article.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect - kevmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0A complete guide how to protect yourself against the Digg effect
http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect - ToadX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2God... this guys site won't even load. Obviously, he does not know how to prepare sites for the "digg effect."
- babbling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1He's giving us an example of a site that can't handle the digg effect. :)
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