Time to invent a new term for 'slashdotted' applied to HN. (Especially since HN seems to drive a lot of referral traffic). Any good suggestions anyone?
You can just hit reply below his post to nest the comments. No need to twitter style shout outs.
What kind of hosting do you have now? Is it a VPS or plain hosted webhosting? If it is a vps I would say to go with linode for the money it looks like they overprovision there plans at hostican but I am just guessing. the front page of digg will send a lot of traffic so even then you should be employing caching of dynamic pages, offloading large media to CDN's or amazon S3, or offering a static page stripped down when you are on the front page depending on how much traffic. If you are experiencing massive traffic in bursts you can do the amazon dynamic provisioning of servers to meet the spikes in traffic.
http://prgmr.com/xen/ has some very good deals on vpses, but they seem to be sold out right now. When they get back, you can get a VPS with 1GB of RAM for 20 usd/month, put whatever you use for your blog software behind ngix and then put a small mencached server or Varnish server to keep the most recently used stuff in RAM.
Do that, and your service can take ./, digg, HN and reddit at the same time.
Or head over to nearlyfreespeech.net and let them host your page - their servers aren't the fastests in the world, but it is pay as you go.
A similar concept is presented in the time management section of The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes. He suggests minimizing reactive tasks and confining them to pre-allocated slots of time, rather than letting them interrupt you throughout the day. It's an obvious suggestion, but few people adopt it in their daily life.
No sale letter (phew) and a $24.99 price.
Does anyone know if this is the same book we're talking about? Or is it different because there are no bonuses? Which sounds strange since they are labeled "free bonuses".
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I pay about $20 a month for Hostican, but still seem to be having problems when my stories get on Hacker News or Digg...
What kind of hosting do you have now? Is it a VPS or plain hosted webhosting? If it is a vps I would say to go with linode for the money it looks like they overprovision there plans at hostican but I am just guessing. the front page of digg will send a lot of traffic so even then you should be employing caching of dynamic pages, offloading large media to CDN's or amazon S3, or offering a static page stripped down when you are on the front page depending on how much traffic. If you are experiencing massive traffic in bursts you can do the amazon dynamic provisioning of servers to meet the spikes in traffic.
Do that, and your service can take ./, digg, HN and reddit at the same time.
Or head over to nearlyfreespeech.net and let them host your page - their servers aren't the fastests in the world, but it is pay as you go.
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http://howtogetfocused.com/the-ultimate-focus-package-01/000...
Then I saw the long sale letter that people should realize actually screams "SCAM" and the $97 price.
But then googling the book title I found this:
http://howtogetfocused.com/get-the-ebook-today/
No sale letter (phew) and a $24.99 price. Does anyone know if this is the same book we're talking about? Or is it different because there are no bonuses? Which sounds strange since they are labeled "free bonuses".