5 Ways To Access Blogs / Sites Under Heavy Load / Attack / Slashdot-Digg Effect

June 26th, 2006 Digg, the popular technology news site, appears to crumble under its own popularity. For quite sometime I am unable to access digg site.

September 19th, 2007 Digg is down. It comes up with an amusing message directing you to several sites like TechCrunch, PaidContent, BBC News & others.

July 13th, 2007 This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects.

October 24th, 2005 Wired News reports about a company which bans all sites containing the word "blog" in a juvenile attempt to prevent employees from accessing blogs. A Google search shows about 42 million pages containing the word blog in url.

June 14th, 2007 Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 is a new release in many refreshing ways. One of the first thing you will notice is that the Translator options page have moved under Options menu.

September 3rd, 2007 Social Bookmarking is back on Simple Thoughts blog. I have added Alex King's Share This plugin along with a modified version of Digg It plugin.

October 5th, 2007 I wrote an article on a Google interview question in June, 2006 describing the problem and offering a simple solution. What makes this article interesting is that several people came up with better ideas and very thought provoking comments.

April 26th, 2006 Most of highly trafficked and highly commented wordpress blogs rely upon some smart caching solution or another. However it may not be enough to prevent slowing down your server if your post(s) are heavily commented upon.

November 14th, 2008 Digg was down. And that is about it.

April 19th, 2005 I started tracking website visitors from 20th March, 2005 using BAStats Plugin. As of 19th April 2005 total hits on my site is: Site Statistics Total Sessions: 57473 Total Page Hits: 105947 There wasn't any SlashDot effect.

October 18th, 2005 Online self-publishing house Lulu has announced the Blooker Prize - first-ever literary award for "blooks," books based on blogs or Web sites. The Lulu Blooker Prize (www.lulublookerprize.com) is the first contest to honor blooks, a hybrid literary form that has evolved in recent years from web sites, particularly the web sites known as blogs.

September 2nd, 2007 Have you tried Master-Master replication (bi-directional slave-master replication) for MySQL? I am finding myself in a position where I need to have this replication to support the load on my blogs and sites. I would very much appreciate if you can share your experience & suggestions with master-master replication of MySQL database.

June 23rd, 2005 I installed the wonderful WP-Cache 2.0 plugin by Ricardo Galli. It incorporates the features from the previous Wordpress caching plugins like Staticize and Staticize Reloaded.

April 12th, 2007 WordPress is a popular blogging software. As a design decision it stores the blog content in database and uses php to fetch and display the pages.

January 31st, 2009 As you may be aware, if you are following my tweets, that we are testing a highly scalable WordPress delivery platform, which can serve over 10000 requests per second from a single server and handle over 20000 concurrent requests without failure. Sounds amazing? then read on...