Comments on: Digg Killed Project Swole

By: Alexander Morentin

Alexander Morentin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:38:38 +0000

Hey Steve,
I was wondering what happened.
I’m sure everything will work out for the best.
Too much traffic is a good thing to have.
It’s better than no traffic.

Best of luck to you.

Peace.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:54:29 +0000

Steve, I had the same issues with my site this past holiday season, not from Digg, but from massive amounts of traffic all at once. I ended up moving to RackSpace, but you may not need to. Here is what I learned:

1. Make sure your pages are accessible without database calls. This means the entire page. WordPress may need to go, not the VPS. In theory, serving a simple HTML document is faster than one that calls a DB every request.

2. Have a fat pipe going to the server. A 10Mb network connection will not cut it. 100Mb or bigger.

3. Make sure the host you choose has a big fat pipe into their facility. The faster the page and elements on it are sent, the faster it can handle the next request.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:10:55 +0000

I will keep the site going, but I just can’t submit to Digg anymore until I get my dedicated server. But I just went on a interview with Fidelity today so I might get a tight software engineering contract pretty soon. Sweeeet.

By: Removing Black Hair Dye

Removing Black Hair Dye — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:56:13 +0000

I’m sad to hear about your problems keeping this project up but I hope you can keep the site up because your advice is invaluable.