After the Digg
- Posted by B Jones on October 10th, 2006 - Comment on this Post »
Well, It’s been an interesting couple of days. I’ve had someone write me to tell me that I am violating their patent and that I must take down my tool. I wonder if they really know what they are talking about. I also had a very interesting letter from the system admin over at 1and1. It seems that by using only around 2 percent of the supposed daily bandwidth that I get with my hosting package, I may be forced to upgrade or find a new host. On that same note, I had someone send an offer for free hosting in exchange for a link.
All this because of being featured on the front page of Digg.
I promised to give more specific statistics for the amount of traffic I’ve had, so here it is:
From AWstats:
The following 2 are from Google Analytics:
Sunday, Oct 8 (Day of the Digg)
Monday, Oct 9 (the day after)
One more image from DuggTrends
Today, traffic is still much higher than I expected it to be. I’ll may post more stats in the next few days when the Digg traffic dies down. In the mean time, I’m looking for a dependable host (probably a VPS) that won’t buckle in the face of Digg like traffic. Any suggestions? Comment, or contact [at] seologs.com.
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October 18th, 2006 at 7:54 am
It will look like spam (hope you set “nofollow”), BUT.
Never think of buying VPS unless you seriously want to change configuration or install any service, which unavailable on your “normal” host.
VPS - hosting solution with lower memory, lower CPU, lower HDD.
Just imagine, that now your hosting provider server is 2CPU 2GHz Xeon with 2G of memory on fast SCSI HDD handling your 1000 request per minute and additionally 5000 requests per minute to other sites on the same host (not, fortunately, listed on Digg).
On VPS you will have your 1000 requests on your XMhz (one processor) with small portion of 2G, not able to handle many simultaneous connections with users, slow HDD and great overhead to handle load from 10-20 optimists (with 1000 requests each), who also believed, that they know the solution and transferred their hevy-load sites to VPS.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
You should outsource content delivery, like images, javascript and other files to CDN. Then you will get less hits to your main hosting account and you will be able to withstand more hits/pageviews.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
Very much will depend on your OS tuning, network stack tuning as well as how did you plan your architecture. As long as you can cache a lot of things and VPS can deal with the network side, you should be set. Caching is the key.