Digg, while still a popular site, seems to have “dugg” itself quite a hole. Not only is site traffic down some 34% after a controversial redesign of the site, but content creators who get their work promoted to the coveted front page are seeing only 60-70 percent of the traffic they used to get. There [...]
Back in June, I penned an article about five lies your host may be telling you, aimed at debunking, or at least questioning, some of the more common marketing claims that hosts use. However, the misinformation doesn’t necessarily end when you’ve become a customer. In many cases, the fibs have only begun. To be clear [...]
Most Webmasters know that, when you start seeing referral traffic from Digg it’s a good idea to batten down the hatches and prepare for a Digg effect. However, Digg is not the only site or service that can delivery a tremendous, potentially server-crushing spike in traffic to your site. There are several other ways you [...]
A guide to branded short URLs- the pros, the cons and some advice on how to get round potential problems.
I had my first major run-in with social media in June 2005. Slashdot had picked up a controversial story I had just written and it was flung onto the front page. Though it was a huge success in terms of getting attention and new readers to my site, it was a complete disaster for my [...]
Social media and news sites can direct a lot of traffic at a website over a short period of time. It’s not uncommon for servers to crash under the weight of these increases, especially on shared servers like Dreamhost. Q. Can a website hosted by Dreamhost handle getting slashdotted, dugg, or handle large traffic spikes? [...]