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Today’s Digg

Posted in Business, General, Misfortunes, OCIA.net stuff, Tech by Shawn Knight on May 21, 2007

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I am happy to report that my Apple iPhone vs Palm Treo 700p article managed to hit the front page of Digg.com today. The results were pretty amazing…

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This is one of the “stronger” Diggs that my site has received. I was fully prepared for it, having upgraded my hosting package to a dedicated server which I was told would be able to handle future Digg’s without a problem.

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And they lied right to my face! Needless to say I was a bit more than pissed off when the server crashed instantly and remained up / down / very slow for several hours afterwards. I pay a lot of money for this dedicated server, only to watch it all slip away when it crashes. I had certainly better receive a full refund for this month’s fees… oh, and does anybody know a decent, reliable hosting company that won’t crash on me under pressure?

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Comments (10)

Comments

  1. Juan Francisco Diez Said,

    The Planet :)

  2. Matthew Said,

    It all depends on the config of MySQL if your site is MySQL driven. Is the hosting company you are with responsible for managing the server? If not then you will need to make changes to allow more connections through etc… also some kind of caching might be good too. The Planet as mentioned above will provide a dedicated server, but this will be unmanaged too. Although their hardware could take a Digg too, an incorrect setup might still cause it to die under pressure.

    I just thought Id mention that so you dont move and it crashes again :)

  3. Justin Said,

    The Planet has gone down hill since the EV1 merger… There are a lot of threads about this in webhostingtalk.com

    LayeredTech seems to be a good and low cost provider.

  4. Nick Said,

    Hey, man that sucks! You have that many SQL queries on the site? Try installing something like memcache to help the code cache mysql queries instead of banging your cpu half a million times when digg attacks.

    Who do you use for dedicated hosting right now? The Planet was great; until they merged with Ev1 - their support has gone nothing but down hill.

    I’ve been seriously looking into a new dedicated hosting company and all of my sources (including sys admin for amazon.com) have recommended LiquidWeb (liquidweb.com) as they have high rated support, great prices, and premium bandwidth. I personally have not used them yet, but they are who I will purchase my new servers from next month.
    -N

  5. Adam Ferguson Said,

    I can’t recommend a good hosting service, as I’m not overly impressed with mine right now, but I can suggest you check out the WP-Cache plugin for WordPress (http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/). I don’t work for them. I swear.

  6. Shawn Knight Said,

    Adam, the Wordpress plugin wouldn’t help me with my other site, as it is a static html site

  7. Nick Said,

    STATIC HTML? How on earth did it go down then? Have you looked into the logs at all?

    I’m assuming you mean php and not html correct?

  8. Shawn Knight Said,

    no, its html… the hosting company claims the server was ‘misconfigured’ - well thanks, considering they are the ones who set it up.

    and it looks like i won’t be getting a refund. screw them.

    ill stick with em for one more month, then i am going to jump ship and debut the new site design on a new server.

  9. Nick Said,

    Did you find some body to hook you up with a new design?

    I have never seen a server go down with just HTML files, it’s almost always when PHP has tons and tons of queries hitting mysql and the CPU is overloaded that Apache shuts down.

    With the new design - make life easy though, don’t program HTML, design a CMS! :)

    -N

  10. Sumit Said,

    In case you are still looking for a server, SoftLayer offers what I think is the best deal for dedicated servers. I used a few of there servers for heavy streaming of live events and they never even hiccuped.


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