Getting dugg by digg

I see the RSS feed from digg.com several times a day due the the fact that I have it setup on my Netvibes homepage that is my browser home page.

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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One Responseto “Getting dugg by digg”

1. Will Platnick says:

   December 21, 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