Under Fire
By Daniel Miessler on September 14th, 2006: Tagged as Digg | LAMP | Social | Sysadmin
I just got pwned by the Digg effect — for like 15 hours — and I’m still unsure of where the bottleneck was.
Was it MYSQL? Was it Apache? I need to do some research. If it’s my host I’m going to pummel them, and if it’s inefficient code on my server, then I’m going to rectify that. I do know that I could still ping my site while the website was down. I could still SSH to it as well, and get mail.
I’m thinking it has to be AMP based. So embarrassing…I pay good money for a dedicated server, and I should to be able to withstand a Digg effect better than this. This can’t happen again.
If anyone’s a guru on optimizing servers to withstand traffic onslaughts, let me know.
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