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Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

I just got pwned by the Digg effect — for like 15 hours — and I’m still unsure of where the bottleneck was.

Was it MYSQL? Was it Apache? I need to do some research. If it’s my host I’m going to pummel them, and if it’ ... Continue reading »

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  • The digg effect can be harsh, man. The slashdot effect has been known to take down several sites, and I've heard it's not quite as bad as digg now-a-days.

    Take it as a compliment that you wrote something so cool.
  • Put a reverse proxy like hginx in front of the server. This is quite easy and helps a lot on amp sytems like yours.

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