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- Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35I have a wordpress blog and had a frontpage digg story one time. I got several hundred thousand pageviews over the course of a few days and I'm still getting over 10k per month from that single article being linked to from all over. I have $9.99/mo "Business" hosting with 1and1 hosting and my site didn't even hiccup. I get 1TB of bandwidth per month and no access restrictions to mySQL. On top of this I was using the stat-traq wordpress plugin (mySQL backend) that logs information about every user on every action they perform which upped the mySQL activity about 100-fold. (It logged 50mb of user-data on the first day alone)
It's not about what blog software you're using, it's about the hardware you're on and the limitations of your host.
It's downright appaling that so many sites go down because of digg. For $3.74 a month you can get a hosting package on 1and1 (1and1 home package) that will stand up to the "digg effect." In my view, if you're writing tech articles you should have thought about getting yourself a decent host LONG ago. - Dochtuir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26At first glance i thought the title read "How to survive the "Digg Effect" on your worthless Blog"
- spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Better solution: Directly link to the source material.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Solution: don't use wordpress. It's not optimized at all. Just to display the index page requires 22 separate SQL queries. Displaying a specific blog entry requires nearly as many.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17At least it's not pictures of Wiis, suspected future Apple products or an install guide for Ubuntu, or software on Ubuntu.
- RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Better solution: Directly link to the source material"
Exactly. Keep digg pure. Keep your blog yours. If you want ad revenue, post something worth linking directly to. Do a review, make an article. Don't click through. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I so hate seeing the wordpress page instead of the link i was trying to get too.
- MrSidnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://duggmirror.com/software/How_to_survive_the_Digg_Effect_on_your_Wordpress_Blog
- CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Isn't it one of the major problems with Digg that a lot of people link to their blog, which then links to the story (or hosts the YouTube video), rather than just using a direct link. I think this may encourage them to do it more often, as they can handle more hits. (And before you digg this down I do realize that some links to blogs are worthwhile, things like How To... guides and other bits of useful information.)
- CalipsoII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hickeroar, honestly I hope you work/shill for 1and1, because anyone so enthusiastic about their webhosting needs to get out more.
- spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Some reviews of 1and1 hosting. Ouch!
http://www.webhostingtestimonials.com/hosts_name.php?id=1and1-reviews-ratings - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Movable Type publishes static html files. That is the best protection you'll get with php.
.NET has some really cool page and object level caching you can do that makes a huge difference. - HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree, you should link directly to the source unless you are providing your own commentary about the article/issue.
I checked the "who blogged this" link on a story once and all of the "blog" entries were just the title and digg synopsis from digg with a link to the story. There was no added content of any sort. That's not blogging a story at all. - joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2None of the WordPress caching modules will solve your problem for the simple reason that they all load WordPress (i.e. include a ton of PHP) and do a couple of database queries just to figure out what time it is, what color the sky is, etc.
Best thing to do is just wrap a caching library like PEAR::Cache_Lite around the WP code (easy to add to the main index.php). Then if you want, add a simple WP plugin to clear the cache on post edits (or just live with your stuff not updating for 5 minutes or whatever you set your cache lifetime too). If you have a theme that auto-populates the comment form for people who've commented before and have cookies set, be sure to take that stuff out or it'll get cached along with everything else. It's easy to fill in this stuff with JS if you still want that convenience for users.
Testing using apache-bench, you ought to be able to get up to 300 PV/second on something like a $300 P4 box. To go faster you could do something like wget + mod_rewrite to just serve static files, or add a caching reverse proxy in front of Apache (but one's not going to fly on a shared server). - ryes540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think another cool thing to have on Digg is a stat on the highest position your post ever went.
- johnnythawte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'm going to laugh if my page can't handle the digg effect. And you should laugh at me too!
- mrmagoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@r2d7
Movable Type is written in Perl, unless they recoded in PHP recently.... - iAlex, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Digg is sometimes like an enourmous DDOS attack.
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31. Don't submit your 'blog' entries to digg.
- yourowndisaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty much 2nd post sums it up. It's not about what CMS you use but the hardware the CMS is running on. I mirror a lot of websites from digg, well not really alot but ones that have been on the front page and honestly my server never ever goes above 0.30 load average. Now my bandwidth well lets not talk about that. On a 3Mbs uplink the bottlenet is obvious. Today i burned 11GB in under 4 hours, lots of traffic if you ask me.
Server Specs:
Dell 2950
Intel Xeon 3.2Ghz Dual Core
4GB DDR2 RAM 1066FSB
MAIN: 73GB HD
BACKUP: 73GB HD
VHOST: 73GB HD - HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As long as your server is good the "Digg Effect" should not be an issue. It's only when people have an underpowered server or a pipe that is not big enough to handle the load.
I just got front paged twice last week and neither one put a strain on my server.
Interestingly enough, I get more hits from "Stumbleupon" then I do from Digg. - koonchu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For what it's worth, tried 1&1 for a month and their customer support was pathetic. Moved on to MediaTemple and am loving the 1TB monthly bandwidth.
- koonchu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4@Hickeroar:
I've been using powweb.com and getting horrible uptime, slowdowns, and crappy support in general; I'm only there because of their cheap(?) packages. I've never actually head of 1and1. Are they dependable?
Anyone else recommend it? - DHelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There’s a site out there called DiggHelper.com that helps promote your digg articles if you’re looking to generate more traffic from digg. It’s main purpose is to help businesses who use digg.com to promote themselves.
http://digghelper.com - lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it was down for me when i posted that.
- thehowdykid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I switched to 1and1 and I'm very happy. The admin area takes a little getting used to though. If you're coming from CPanel, there's a learning curve for sure.
- lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0well, looks like he's down - so much for wp-cache!
- johnnythawte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0The server never went down or even coughed. No clue why somebody put a duggmirror link there, but the site wasn't down at all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2K..try surving a digg effect at 9am on a monday morning with just a cache plugin. That will fail as well. ONE method isn't enough to survive a *effect
- johnnythawte, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5That's really hilarious. I dugg your comment!
- Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Koonchu-
1and1 is the #1 webhost in the world. Very reliable and very fast. I believe their main server center is in PA or NY. I'm in TX and it's plenty fast.
Some of their awards: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/HostingNewsAwards
Data Center Info: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DataCenter (They have a virtual tour at the bottom of the page. It's a pretty impressive facility...)
Most of their packages come with at least one free domain. Home package comes with two, Business Package comes with three. I believe they're running a sale at the moment. $7.99 a month for Business packages if you sign up now... too bad I missed that. FYI- The home plan gives you 500gb of bandwidth. At less than $4 a month you can't beat it. - orbvsterrarvm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1The description says caching right in it...
your article was Everywhere the last day or two. I don't think there's any miracle cure other than upgrading your server, if you are gonna get that kind of traffic. - Cputerace, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Although its not WP, i got dugg and the site took it very well, never even slowed down. I think its because of my host. A lot of people have free web hosts or hosts that are like $1/month, however i use Lunarpages, its only like $6.95/month but its worth it not to have to worry, they also have like 400GB transfer on that plan now.
http://computeradvice.mikebinns.net/whyLunar.php - Kailash.Nadh, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Why do irrelevant, useless stories like this get promoted at all?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1That article wasn't that good. He gave ONE technique, and only got 3000 hits. Try being on slashdot with wordpress and see how well that technique works. As I found out today: it doesn't.
Does anyone know of any scripts that would help with the digg/slashdot effect besides wp-cache? - orbvsterrarvm, on 10/12/2007, -29/+1nice. dugg.
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