{"id":8667,"date":"2007-03-04T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/lightsticks-in-the-toilet-fallout-digg-effect\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:10","slug":"lightsticks-in-the-toilet-fallout-digg-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/lightsticks-in-the-toilet-fallout-digg-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightsticks In The Toilet Fallout  \/  Digg Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, earlier today I submitted my <a href=\"http:\/\/c0nsumer.livejournal.com\/979889.html\">Lightsticks In The Toilet LJ Post<\/a> and photo album <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\">the Make Blog<\/a>. I had also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/general_sciences\/Photo_Lightsticks_poured_into_toilet_look_like_galaxies\">submitted it to Digg<\/a> sometime last night.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/03\/lightsticks_in_the_latrin.html\">been posted on the Make Blog<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/general_sciences\/Photo_Lightsticks_poured_into_toilet_look_like_galaxies\">Digg link<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.nuxx.net\/bandwidthd\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting. I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I just moved the photos to nine per page (3&#215;3) to cut down on the impact of each page load. We&#8217;ll see what happens, I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-nuxxnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}