Paano maghanda para sa Boingboing at Digg?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief August 25, 2006 · 2 min read

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Noong nakaraang dalawang linggo, nakita ko na ang dalawa sa aming mga server ay pinapagod hanggang kamatayan dahil sa Boingboing at noong maagang araw ngayon, ang Digg (Alam ninyo kung sino kayo. *hehe*). Sa isang shared hosting environment, maaaring ito ay magdulot ng masasamang epekto.

Ano ang maaaring mangyari?

Magsisikwit ang iyong site dahil sa malaking bilang ng mga bisita sa maikling panahon.
Kung nagpapatakbo ka sa isang database-driven na site/blog tulad ng Wordpress, maaaring mapuno at mag-crash ang mySQL.
Mawawalan ka ng bandwidth at sisuspensyunin ka ng iyong web host.

Ano ang kailangan mong gawin para maghanda nito?

Abalahin ang iyong web host *bago*, HINDI habang o pagkatapos na dugg o slashdot. Tandaan na sa isang shared hosting environment, lahat ng ibang site na naka-host sa parehong server ay aabot din ng kapansanan.
Kung mayroon kang Wordpress, maaari mong i-install ang wp-cache plugin. Makakatulong ito upang malaki ang pagbaba ng server load.
Kung kaya mo, i-convert ang page sa HTML o static page para hindi mahirapan ang mySQL at makakatanggap ang Apache ng karagdagang load o user connections.
Kung maraming images o downloadables ang iyong site, i-host ito sa ibang lugar pansamantala, tulad ng Flickr o PutFile, upang bawasan ang bandwidth consumption at file requests.

Huli na, maghanda ng malalaking bayarin mula sa iyong webhost pagkatapos. Karaniwang iniisip ng mga tao na ang pagiging dugg o slashdot ay maaaring magdulot ng mas mataking kita. Ang kanilang nakalimutan isiping ang bandwidth na ginamit sa maikling panahon na iyon ay praktikal na makakagawa ng butas sa kanilang bulsa.

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17 Comments

rain · 20 years ago

Ano ba yung BoingBoing na yan? Nakakain ba yan?

*evil laughter*

J. Angelo Racoma · 20 years ago

Actually, my feedburner subscription count has jumped up since they changed the way they counted subscribers (that was about two months ago). And yes, I checked the stats. It seems most of the new subscribers are firefox live bookmarks.

Thanks for submitting the story, Ahmed! :P Seems you’ve quite got the DIGG magic.

Angelo

AhmedF · 20 years ago

The feed count always jumps – its an illusion. Just FireFox Live Bookmarks – in a few days it will fall.

At the same time, a user cannot ‘predict’ the digg/boingboing effect happening. I would imagine everyone is trying to create compelling content that will generate links and so forth.

J. Angelo Racoma · 20 years ago

A clarification. I called them a ‘mob’ because one said ‘hey, this site’s down. it must be crappy,’ then all other seemed to think likewise and comment with the same thoughts. Thing is, the site just overloaded and the content was valid. But people still flagged it as inaccurate or lame.

How stupid.

Anyway, I don’t have ads on my site, and I probably won’t put up any, at least in the short term. And the economic benefits of getting DUGG go far beyond ad clicks (since DIGGers are techies anyway, and are likely to be adsense blind).

I actually got dugg once already, but it was an article I wrote on ForeverGeek about four months ago. Our server was able to handle the load, and up to now people link to and comment to that post of mine (about podcasting) and consider it to be a good resource on basic podcasting.

Of course, a few weeks after, we challenged the DIGG model and DIGG banned us for a while. We realized DIGG wasn’t really the democratic system we thought. There are internal filters and influences. Within (or around) DIGG exists TPTB – the powers that be.

As we at Enthropia and BloggyNetwork would say, the benefit of getting DUGG frontpage wouldn’t be monetary, but this would help increase your popularity and readers’ regard for you and your site. It’s one good way to build up your reputation on the Net.

Suddenly my feedburner subscriptions jumped up two- to three-fold. I’m hoping for increased _quality_ readership from this point on.

Mike Lopez · 20 years ago

Angelo, just curious – aside from the traffic (which apparently is too much), did you benefit from the sudden digg ‘mob attack’?

jhay · 20 years ago

Hmm…I think it would be cumbersome to inform the webhost prior to posting an entry because you can never be sure that it will get dugg after you post it or later on in the future when a reader does spend some more extra seconds to click on the digg this icon or link.

Unless you use a dummy account and digg your own post and so on like what a friend of mine does. It’s shrewed but it does work in increasing traffic.

Like Sir Angelo Racoma, I’m a bit scared of getting dugg. It could quickly eat up my month’s bandwidth and since I using the free .com.ph domain + hosting, I don’t know if I would get the additional bandwidth also for free. I noticed this when a post of mine was dugg, though it didn’t reached the top of the front page, traffic spiked and my bandwidth consumption shot up by 12% in just a day.

I’ll now go and look for wp-cache plugin just to get a little prepared for the next digg mob attack. ;)

eric · 20 years ago

mmmmmm

abe ito rin ba ang dahilan sa pagkalugmok ng blog ko kanina? eheh

natakot ako akala ko na-hack blog ko. kaya bigla akong nag test post

J. Angelo Racoma · 20 years ago

Yeah, I know who I am. Screw DIGG!

What I hate about DIGG is the mob mentality so prevalent. Site was down so they buried the entry and flagged it as inaccurate just a while after it reached front page.

I’d rather check out my friends’ bookmarks on del.icio.us or stumbleupon.

Honestly, I never expected to get dugg.

Welp, ’til next time!