Feeling the Digg Effect
I know, I know. I should be happy I have such a problem as feeling the digg effect. But truth be told, it sucks. I’ve been getting slammed once again via digg and my server can’t handle it. It’s time for an upgrade.
I’ve spent the better half of the evening searching around for solutions to the digg effect for dynamic pages such as those served by wordpress (which is what I use) and have come up with one main solution. Get a dedicated server. However, I’m not quite ready for what I would consider the big-time solution of a dedicated server and have been searching around for other solutions.
One that I’ve found is Dreamhost.com. It would appear that several large traffic sites use dreamhost and I would assume that not all of them use dedicated servers. But I could be wrong?
Is there a shared hosting solution that my readers could suggest to alleviate my digg effect woes?
Comments
Comment from Dale
Time: February 23, 2007, 8:44 am
Should you opt to upgrade to a better hosting company, Dreamhost is definitely well worth it.
Comment from Erik
Time: February 23, 2007, 3:37 pm
Thanks Ya’ll!
I was looking around at that wp-cache plugin late last night and then when I awoke to find your suggestion Cesar I immediately installed the plugin.
Hopefully it helps out?
The digg effect went way down as it usually does, still hat about 100 an hour but not as bad as the initial surge.
I may make the switch to dream host shared just cause I dig their homepage pictures. Sweet!
Comment from webstuffscan
Time: February 26, 2007, 4:17 am
The first thing you need to do is to install wp-cache. My site was able to handle huge traffic during digg effect and I think it was due to wp-cache alone.
I use http://www.globat.com for hosting. It is pretty reliable so far. No downtime and no performance issues.
I use dreamhost for a different site and it also works like a charm (there was 10 hour downtime yesterday though)
Comment from Flee The Cube
Time: February 26, 2007, 9:31 pm
Glad to help. Let’s see what happens next time you get dugg with the plugin install. BTW, you made me curious, which article was it that got dugg?
Comment from Josh
Time: February 27, 2007, 9:28 pm
If you want to have a whole network of blogs, plus the way you talk about how you want to make money by doing not much more than blogging, you’ve gotta spend some capital one way or the other. I can host you, I’ve not been digged, but I can handle it as I’ve got a pretty unused dedicated server.
Comment from Cesar
Time: March 6, 2007, 11:18 pm
Never mind, I’m an idiot. I just had to read a few entries down 
Comment from Computer Repair
Time: March 25, 2007, 6:51 pm
My Wordpress based site has made front page about 5 times in the past and my server folded the first 4 times. After installing WP-Cache is survives them with no problems. Definitely worth checking it out.
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Comment from Cesar
Time: February 23, 2007, 7:47 am
Poor you
Actually, the first step I would take to alleviate digg woes is to install the wp cache plugin and activate it. I use it on Argentina’s Travel Blog and it rocks.
Basically, the idea is that right now, every time someone loads one of your pages, dozens of MySQL calls have to be made to serve that page. Once you install wp cache, those calls are made every hour, or every X minutes, and an HTML version of your site is built. Then, when people arrive at your pages, all it takes is one HTTP request to serve up your content.