Comments on: A day with Digg Effect – when the hosting sucks!

By: Rabbie

Rabbie — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:02:36 +0000

appreciate the info guys, thanks

By: methode

methode — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:30:10 +0000

I’m with Alejandro, switch to Media Temple, they rock. Maybe it’s not the cheapest host, but definitely it’s rock solid.

Congrats on your success, sad you had such a bad experience with your hosting company when one of the most important things happened in your webmaster-life.
I think I’m a bit jealous though

By: How to survive the Digg effect | Developer Oracles

How to survive the Digg effect | Developer Oracles — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:37:42 +0000

[...] much computing resource like memory and processing time, or even bandwidth. A quite recent case is ashokgelal’s quicktweaks.com blog or Andrew Wise from wisestartupblog.com. After one of ashokgelal’s posts got 84 diggs, [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:48:15 +0000

I’ve never had any trouble with my host (Tigerhost – probably a GoDaddy Reseller from the looks of it). One of my sites was put on the front page of Digg, and they didn’t even blink. The pages were up without having to resort to caching mechanisms, and I got tens of thousands of visitors in one day. It’s a really cool thing to see on your Google Analytics account, too – just a flat line under 100, and then this MONSTROUS peak to 10,000, followed by a gentle slope down to normal.

By: Alejandro Cuervo

Alejandro Cuervo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:33:15 +0000

switch to http://mediatemple.net grid service (gs)
you will discover a whole new world in the hosting ecosystem

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:49:03 +0000

This is exactly what happend to Rami over at hehe2.net. He was using bluehost and actually had to start a new account at another company. They told him to limit his server connections or find another hosting company. Check out his article he wrote here: http://hehe2.net/misc/100-posts-laterroyal-hehe2-ness-finds-a-new-temple/ It is a good read.

By: Alejandro Cuervo

Alejandro Cuervo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:34:28 +0000

So, are you sticking with lunarpages or did you move somewhere else?
After all that rant I would assume this website is no longer on lunarpages, right?

By: andrea james

andrea james — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:25:01 +0000

I actually found your site from the Digg frontpage and have to say…you’re going to run into this issue no matter where you host. It’s not a matter of the offered storage/bandwidth/data xfer/etc. It’s more about the physical usage you use up on the machine.

If you’re using more than probably 1 or 2% in computer processing units (CPU) you will have this problem again and again. If you’re hosting in a “shared” environment, that’s just the jist of how they make it affordable – by having 300 people all using 1 server.

Maybe try one of their bigger plans?I mean, I have a Virtual private server which lets me have 1/25th of the CPU. I dunno what that works out to but I’ve never had trouble. lol So it must be good! At the very least maybe only hosting 1 site on their server would help? not sure but it’s worth a shot.

Anyway good luck! Hosting is always a tough ride when something breaks but at least you’ll be prepared for next time.