Getting dugg by digg
It is funny to see an interesting article that someone had dugg and then try to go to the actual site itself. Almost 50% of the time the site is down due to all of the traffic that it is getting. This is known as “The digg effect”. The have a service called the digg mirror that usually takes a snapshot of the the site and stores it on a different server in case the original site goes down.
That got me to thinking - what if I got dugg? If that happened there is not doubt in my mind that this site would go down - and quick. The reason for that is that I have budget hosting and it just cannot handle the type of traffic that a dugg site will get.
I have looked around at other hosting companies and have checked out their forums to see if their service is any better. I see the same thing over and over again - web server outages, MySQL outages, DNS issues - it is not pretty. I was looking to switch until I saw this at so many other places.
Isn’t there a good hosting company out there?
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December 21st, 2006 at 6:28 am
Hey, I would stay away from JodoHost most definitely. In fact I just posted my experience with them last night.
I just went to resellerzoom.com and they offer a basic fail-over reseller account for only $25. I also just wrote about them too in my innagural post, check it out if you like.
Also, if you are a big fan of RSS feeds and you haven’t yet, I’d take a look at Google Reader. It’s definitely the best web based RSS client out there right now.
-Will