What is Digg?59 Comments
- Anrkist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+45"This account has been suspended by WebHostingBuzz.com" - WEIRD WILD AND WHACKY!
- joethepeacock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Just an aside,
I remember back in the later 90's / early 2000's when bandwidth and space were honest limitations for a hosting provider (both paid and unpaid). So back then, seeing 'This account has exceeded it's quota for (X)" was acceptable, if annoying.
In 2007, both bandwidth and space have effectively become non-issues. Yet, some $5 a month servers feel compelled to "ban" or "suspend" or otherwise yank down sites when they reach these ridiculous limits - especially given that the ONLY reason sites these days reach those limits is "too many" pageviews.
I mean, come on... The provider is still serving pages through all these Digg clickthroughs! It's not like the box itself melted - they're still able to serve their stupid little message. This hosting provider has an opportunity to effectively market it's robustness here - instead of saying something like "this account is suspended," couldn't they also theoretically just serve the site, but with an iframe message at the top saying "This robust, non-digg-effect-affected webpage brought to you by Super Badass Webbuzz Server Happy Company"? And instead of limiting bandwidth, they could just say "for $5 a month, you get x number of non-bannered pages served. After that, we put a little banner at the top of your page."
I just plan don't get it. - Quadcore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Yea the hosting provider wanted to get the publicity for themselves, *****!
- akatherder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Yep, that's one way to make sure I'll never use them to host anything.
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Has anyone ever figured out a rough formula for (Diggs)+(comments)=average clicks on link?
I always wonder how much traffic crashed the server when something is down before 100 diggs... - sircomix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Its like the good ol' Geocites days...
- yeehawjared, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6best google map / street view site out there would have to be http://googlesightseeing.com/
Been going there for years. - linksus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5People must have such low expectations of their websites when they host it with someone who will pull your site down if more than a few people visit you. Geez
- NoSalt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Can't find the U.S.??? Are you from South Carolina by chance???
- sportbikepilot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7buried for a ***** server...
- rss2pdf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Oh yeah - I'll be switching to that web hoster in a hurry.
- grotsasha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4site dead, duggmirror didn't catch it...
- sutro33, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4such as.
- crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Who puts their big web projects at a place with a name like webhostingbuzz.com?
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I dugg it after the site was down to remind myself to check the link later. Also, when i'm at work, certain links will be blocked by websense, in which case i'll do the same thing for the same reason.
- neophytoplasm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The Google Cache of the site (http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:hK18cKMNmzUJ:www.mapofstrange.com/+map+of+strange&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us) says:
Formerly known as scitor.co.uk, the site has been relaunched with a new host. The site was down for a few days at the beginning of April and the end of May - we had a problem with our hosts (we were using too much of the CPU limit - naughty us). As such we've moved to a new webhost where that shouldn't be an issue and got ourself a funky new domain name - MapOfStrange.com.
Looks like time for a new host again! - mborg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This is ridiculous - the DIgg number keeps rising, even though the site is down. Presumambly someone has found a mirror? Or do people Digg based on description only?
- GreyICE, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4No, because its obviously pretty dependent on the quality of the site. Besides, diggs often go up once something is down (digging it is a good way to bookmark it to check later when its back up).
- jdhoover, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I would imagine Digg could add a wrapper to the link that executes a script to log how many people actually clicked on the article link, but I'm not sure if they would share that with us. It would be nice to see though.
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3People who are just getting started... not every website has a corporate formula attached.
- crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well now they will... when people search for their name in Google, it will pull up this Digg page about how fragile their servers are.
- MichaelE777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Spelling has become a lost art...
- Genma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I don't think there is a formula, nowadays it just seems like they have a bunch of people browsing the posts and picking random stories with popular key words for whatever category. seriously what kind of mathematical genius could come up with an algorithm that could compete with greed/apathy/stupidity all at once, I don't know if there's any type of math that would make that possible. remember back in the day when diggs actually meant something? that was before math got involved, you know when people just dugg links that were good.
- RocketGib, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The only strange, wacky, weird and wonderful anomalies, sights and oddities are suspended pages on cheap web servers.
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I always thought that the VP's mansion was blurred out on google maps.
- adooga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's his aura
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2damn it sounds neat..
- Falcon32, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://diggeffect.ytmnd.com
- nichenet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2site down, anyone have a backup link?
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why is it so hard to figure out that diggs != server down>
Just because I look at a site doesnt mean I digg it. Hell, I only digg things to bookmark it. - piper999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You also can't see his reflection in a mirror.
- EdgarCayce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1digg to check back later
- surfing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1for the children!
- taketheleap, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm with joethepeacock: Why in 2007 would you suspend an account!? Hell, show off that you can handle Digg user beating the living crap out of your servers, cuz really, if you can withstand us hitting it, you can pretty much withstand anything. Seriously... suspension = bad business practice.
- techmonkey4u, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1digg isn't the only high-traffic site on the internet that links to other sites.
- reed311, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They do it to make more money off of the user. They send them an email saying their account was suspended with a link to put in their credit card to upgrade to more bandwidth.
- johnnliu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1But I wonder if in this case it's coming back at this address...
- kb7735, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Strange map yes, I can't even find the US or The Iraq on it. Maybe it's down.
- lordmetroid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2exactly
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2this site got the bomb from the digg1 roflcopter
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://dotcache.com/http://www.mapofstrange.com/ and http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapofstrange.com%2F&btnG=Search
Of course, no images. :( - optophobia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1they must have got the budget hosting from webhostingbuzz :
Features
Disk Space 300 GB
Data Transfer/Month 2000 GB
Price/month $2.95 - subliminalurge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Um, digging an article does not necessarily have anything to do with whether or not you liked it.
I, and many other people, digg articles as nothing more than a way to bookmark them for later. In fact, I am MUCH more likely to digg an article that is not accessible at the moment than one that I can go read immediately. - toxicredm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1(Diggs * Schrute Bucks / unicorns)+(comments * Stanley Nickels / leprechauns)=clicks on link
- diggymow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2How has it got so many diggs when it was down with under 50 diggs? 150 people love a site they can't see!
- crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Good question, mborg... lately I have been wondering the same thing.
- escheppa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This must be Andy Dick's Hosting Service.
- Falcon32, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0www.diggeffect.ytmnd.com
- ReignX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Even better site dealing with the same stuff
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ - smarmbeast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Totally. There is a huge easy button my desk just for throttling users on $5.00 plans on shared IP's. Let me just fire up my Narus DPI box and take care of it.
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