The “Digg Effect”
Yesterday, I posted a Mac Codec Pack with the primary purpose of hoping it would go front page on digg, to see what would happen.
Success, It went frontpage, we got bombarded with visitors, and kept going. The “Digg Effect” is incredible, while the users of Digg don’t click ads (we don’t have any on here, so that doesn’t matter) and they don’t comment, its a great tool for smaller startup websites to get going, if you can handle it. Last week, I had someone go frontpage on one of my other websites which was hosted on a virtual server, and was shut down within minutes of going front page.
We experienced the digg effect with MySpacePlus and barely survived it running on a dedicated all by itself, which in all fairness, wasn’t very optimized.
Back to the story, we’re running this blog on MediaTemple’s (new?) GridServer, which they advertise as hundreds of servers for the price of one. I doubt its hundreds of servers, however, the load is spread across multiple servers, all for the start price of $20/month, which compares favorably to a virtual account for that price (1TB bandwidth, 100GB storage).
Needless to say, the site hasn’t slowed down once since the influx of traffic from digg, and the grid seems to be handling it just fine, so two thumbs up to MediaTemple and they’re GridServer solution! We highly recommend it for any purpose, we’ve got another site running on it that 200k pageviews a day that runs just as fast as this blog.
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