Comments on: Can Your Site Survive a Digg?

By: FYI News: Dulles Technology Corridor Residents are Digg Diggin’ Slate.com’s Redesign and Jack Shafer’s Experiments with Blogging and SEO « Everything Ashburn

Sat, 29 May 2010 22:56:01 +0000

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By: R Cox

R Cox — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:57:06 +0000

I didn’t know it was okay to digg your own articles. Maybe if I digg 9 or 10 other good articles between each of my own, I can get away with it.

I think I’ll try it once and see how it works out.

By: Bonny Fetterly

Bonny Fetterly — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:06:32 +0000

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By: London Wedding Photographer

London Wedding Photographer — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:23:50 +0000

Any ideas on handling the effects of duggmirror? Can I block duggmirror somehow?

Thanks

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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:14:36 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:47:11 +0000

Or, if you run Apache, you can prepare your site to automatically redirect visitors coming from Digg, Slashdot etc. to go through Coral Cache:
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/1957

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:39:39 +0000

I think WordPress already has built-in caching, but maybe we need a plugin that can generate a static version of the site. Remember MT?

The build-in caching is disabled by default and isn’t a proper output cache… it’s just used for caching of frequently used PHP objects, like user, page, and category information. If you want to survive the Digg effect with WordPress, you need the WP-Cache2 plugin, which caches the HTML output of pages. I’ve pushed sites to well over 1200 page views per second with this, and other tweaks, using WordPress. Digg and Slashdot together at the same time aren’t even going to come close to hitting that.

By: Tetsou

Tetsou — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:51:34 +0000

This is great advice. I wished I had read it before I was dugg! I couldn’t survive being dugg at Tetsou when my article ‘ 7 deadly sins of email’ was posted. And this was the first of my articles to have been posted. Within hours I had floods of traffic hitting my page which is dynamically served by PHP.

As the server slowed, my provider notified me I was under a DOS attack! Ha ha. I explained about the Digg article and we tried to shore the server – but to no avail as my articel quickly hit the frontpage.

Be careful what you digg for.

Tetsou

By: Heath Weaver

Heath Weaver — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:39:32 +0000

Developing with RubyonRails allows you to set static comment as a feature of the framework. It’s as easy as specifying which parts of the page you want as static or dynamic.

Really interesting food for thought here.