Lightsticks In The Toilet Fallout / Digg Effect
So, earlier today I submitted my Lightsticks In The Toilet LJ Post and photo album (photo gallery retired) to the Make Blog. I had also submitted it to Digg sometime last night.
Well, it has been posted on the Make Blog, and the Digg link has really taken off. With a total of 5 fastcgi processes for myself (nuxx.net, et al) the box is sitting at a load of ~5 to ~10, and is handing out loads of data. Feel free to watch the bandwidth consumption here.
This is interesting. I’ve only had to deal with tremendous bandwidth load before (eg: hosting the SG videos, or original seed for Katrina photos), not something that actually loads the box.
I just moved the photos to nine per page (3×3) to cut down on the impact of each page load. We’ll see what happens, I guess…
Nice, Make kicks ass.
Thanks. :) I had a full-on article (well, two pages) published in the print edition a year and a half ago or so.
really… which article and which issue?
Not to point you to another site, but there is info about it on this page. My biggest complaints about the article is that it had to be rather terse to fit the word limit, and the person laying out the page didn’t color correct the photos.
Alas, now I know to be more careful with the photos and such if I end up submitting another article somewhere.
Ah, I didn’t realize that was your’s, I remember reading that too… on both your site and in Make, I guess I didn’t put one and two together. It wasn’t too bad, all the articles are a bit terse.
I’ve actually got a bit of an issue with the whole ‘Maker’ culture thing, it seems to dumb down stuff into bite-sized pieces which you can do, feel accomplished, then not progress past. But… that’s a discussion for a different time. (It’s sort of what I felt was happening to PC ‘modding’ in the late 90s when everything became bolt-on bling and lights.)
Do you have to pay extra to your Co Lo / web provider for the increase bandwidth. Let say you went over your bandwidth, what do they do? Do they cap or allow the bandwidth but charges you for it? How does that work?
I’m not sure, I’ve never hit the cap… I think they charge extra.
Do you want to find out? I can slashdot it :)
I’m sure it could take a Slashdotting. I think Digg is more popular these days, anyway, and that didn’t make it blink.
How would you, anyway? There is nothing on my site worthy of a /. post, I don’t think.
Personally I don’t use Digg nor slashdot. These days I solely rely on del.icio.us. Since you’re a geek and write about geeky stuff I’m sure there are plenty of thing on your site that can be slashdotted. Perhaps the honda music thingy.
It’s been submitted, as well as the toilet lightstick photos. I’d welcome submission of anything on there, but I think the server would likely stay up without problem.
For what it’s worth, when the Digg stuffs really took off yesterday I was using the server as an IRC client and didn’t notice a blink of lag. The sites themselves were a little slow, but everything kept loading the whole time, just a bit slowly. Never a db error or anything, even though both the MediaWiki part of the main site and the gallery have all non-photographic content in a db, and all photos are at least passed through a sort of image firewall in php.
Digg is mostly crap, but it’s good for brief reading while on a conference call or whatnot. Slashdot is still okay for discussions and interesting news links, but it’s really gone downhill. I find del.icio.us to just be a hassle at times. But I do use it… I just don’t post much to there.
You’re more than welcome to try submitting any of my articles or photos in order to get the box Slashdotted, but I don’t think it’ll fail.
All the mentioned methods will probably won’t cap your bandwidth. What about DDOS :)
A proper DDOS will take almost anything down. It’d also get the ISP talking to friends in gov’t agencies. ;)
indeed. :D