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11-01-2009, 09:13 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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VPS & Digg Effect
Which VPS package would I need from Host Gator to survive a front page Digg? http://www.hostgator.com/vps-hosting/
Would a level 3 work?
Running wordpress with the wp-super cache plugin.
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11-01-2009, 09:20 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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A front page digg can bring down a dedicated server. A VPS will go down even faster...
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11-01-2009, 11:32 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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True! Perhaps something like MediaTemple (http://mediatemple.net/) will work for you.
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11-01-2009, 11:58 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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You might also want to consider using some of Amazon's cloud resources to serve up images, and even do database queries.
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11-01-2009, 12:00 PM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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What are your plans for the VPS? Wordpress? Hosting a single image? It depends on what kind of content and how "heavy" the content would be that was posted to the front page of Digg.
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11-01-2009, 12:02 PM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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I've heard about this, but it seems confusing to me. Can you use it with a VPS? Put the site on a VPS and the database on Amazon I guess?
I have a guy that takes care of most of the backend stuff for me, although I've started to learn a little bit here and there.
I know there are a few wordpress plugins for the amazon cloud services.
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11-01-2009, 12:11 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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11-01-2009, 12:23 PM #8Web Hosting Evangelist
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Just my 2C:
Also design for a light and usable website. Keep large images down and make use of caching plugins for Wordpress (wp-cache) and possibly php OpCode cachers like eAccelerator and XCache.=> • Admo.net Managed Hosting •
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11-01-2009, 12:27 PM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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Should I be looking at ec2 or s3? What sort of budget should I set aside for such a service? The pricing model means nothing to me. I have no clue what "standard" or "high-memory reserved instances" are.
If it helps, I'm looking to launch a men's online magazine on wordpress (with wp-super cache installed). Content will mainly be 400-600 word articles.
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11-01-2009, 12:52 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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11-01-2009, 12:52 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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Also just saw something called Amazon SimpleDB. Have no clue what the difference between all these services is.
People say that the limitation to a VPS is the disk i/o. So, if my database is on Amazon, the disk i/o doesn't really matter?
/clueless
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11-01-2009, 12:56 PM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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11-01-2009, 01:27 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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11-01-2009, 01:54 PM #14Junior Guru
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11-02-2009, 01:52 AM #15Web Hosting Evangelist
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11-02-2009, 03:53 AM #16Engineer
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How can you make such a statement?
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11-02-2009, 03:59 AM #17Web Hosting Master
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Not using Apache would help too. Try installing Lighttpd or Nginx as they will cope with the load better
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11-02-2009, 04:36 AM #18WHT Addict
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Wow! I really did not notice Hostgator started offering VPS so VPS.NET-like style. I would clearly go for Amazon Cloud Hosting, or any others (: (pay-as-you-go).
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11-02-2009, 04:46 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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Depending on the Digg Effect at the time, I mean you cannot class a Digg Effect at say 1000 hits it could be anywhere from 1000 to 30,000+ hits at any given time so in essence it will vary to what service you have to how well it will cope with the Digg.
It comes down to CPU/Ram and other usages to determine whether or not a certain Service/Server could handle it, You also need to add what is on your site, Audio, Video, Images, Text etc and I suppose those would determine the factor of the impact of the digg██ l Dedigeeks • Shared • Wordpress • Dedicated • Established 2006
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11-02-2009, 05:06 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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11-02-2009, 04:36 PM #21Newbie
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I disagree about front page digg resulting in a crashed server... Can anyone provide any actual metrics for campaign that reached the front page of digg? (doubt it) but it would help to decide how much bandwidth and processing power to allocate to something like this.
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11-02-2009, 04:40 PM #22Junior Guru Wannabe
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Well, the front page of Digg can definitely bring down a crappy server or hosting service for that matter.
I work with many who actually get on the front page of Digg with their sites and most of them are on a VPS. I will also be launching some sites that will be heavily promoted on Digg and they will be on a VPS as well.
As long as the setup is high quality, a VPS can handle a website getting FP's.
Also, the bandwidth and network speed plays a major part, it's smart to go with 100 mbps in the beginning and a good amount of bandwidth allotment. Always better safer than sorry.
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11-02-2009, 04:52 PM #23Keep rockin' in the free world
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11-02-2009, 07:01 PM #24Web Hosting Evangelist
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Take your pick:
http://www.slicehost.com/articles/20...s-slicehosters
http://forum.slicehost.com/comments....nID=752#Item_8
http://forum.slicehost.com/comments....cussionID=2719
http://forum.slicehost.com/comments....scussionID=945
http://forum.slicehost.com/comments....ID=752#Item_10
There's more. I'm posting SliceHost only, because I'm actually use their service and have been for more than 2 years. So once again, I find the VPS/digg comments rather amusing, yes, it sometimes takes a bit of tuning, depending on your site, but it's not impossible, and it's not even improbable.
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