I made it to the front page of Digg yesterday for the first time — very exciting stuff. What’s not so exciting is that my web server was not available for the few hours that it was being obliterated by Digg users. I can’t imagine how many tried to see the article but weren’t able to while my server was reduced to a foul-smelling liquid.
Anyway, I’ll be taking a look at the logs to see what the bottleneck was: apache, the database, bandwidth, or some combination of the three. Looks like I may be in for an upgrade to the server, assuming it’s not cost prohibitive. But first I have to find out which piece took the beating…
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I was wondering why I couldn’t reach your blog the other day.
Seems like it’s almost as bad as the slashdot effect, eh?
Comment by Tim — 5/13/2006 @ 6:14 pm
Bah, Digg’s beaten Slashdot by now. http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2Cdigg&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Comment by Michael S Black — 5/15/2006 @ 7:57 am