What happens when your site gets on the homepage of Digg.com?
Yesterday I experienced quite the experience. One of the pages on my site hit the front page of digg.com. Can I tell you how awesome this was. Within minutes the web server I hosted sent me this message:
Hello, We had to suspend the account with morrise.com due to high CPU and RAM usage. Currently the web site is using about 21.41% of RAM and 16% of CPU Our limits are 10% of each resource. Unfortunately we can’t afford to host so large account on a shared server it affects other accounts. I strongly recommend you to consider upgrade to a dedicated or VPS server or limit your downloads. More information for a VPS or dedicated servers you can find on the following pages: http://midphase.com/html_files/hosting_plan_vps.php http://midphase.com/html_files/hosting_plan_dedicated.php Thank you – Alex Shevchuk System administrator midPhase Services, Inc. — #1 Recommended Web Host! Phone: 312-386-1640 E-mail: support@midphase.com
I will freely admit that the hosting that I have for my website is less than “Enterprise” level. It’s about 7 bucks a month. The website came down after being on digg.com’s homepage for only about an hour. It’s amazing the kind of views that thing gets. After several hours of having my page pounded without people being able to get on, I emailed my hosting provider asking them to enable my account again. Here was the response:
Hello Benjamin, I’ve unsuspended your account to allow you to get it fixed. Please note, we’ll be forced to terminate it if the problem remains in the future Thank you. Eugene
I was actually quite curious as to the amount of visits that I received to this site because it sounded like a ton. This morning when I logged on to my Google Analytics account I got a great surprise: almost 9000 unique visitors for yesterday. That’s pretty awesome considering the site was only “up” for a few hours. Here’s what the page looked like:
