On Digg front page

7,000 visitors in the past 2 hours. No signs of the server even getting slow.

digg.com/tech_news/7_Things_you_might_hear_about_at_CES_this_week

Took over a day to hit the front page, I thought it hadn't made it.

 

Congrats.
Any increase in revenue?

 

wow congratulations Can you share your server specs? must be those dual xeon ones.

 

I see you're running a big RSS icon, have you got any new subs?

 

I run all my sites on shared hosting with Positive. They rock.

http://www.positive-internet.com/zhosting.html

No revenue yet. Will post any interesting stats as I get them.

To take full advantage I have linked the dugg story to another story that could get dugg.

 

Cool, Congrats man..any improvement in alexa rank?
Saad

 

Probably. I don't expect Alexa updates very quickly though.

 

shared? Wow! My host used to suspend my site (when i was on shared) as soon as i topped 200 co-current users.

Saad I believe alexa updates ranks after 24 hours.

 

sweet dude congrats

 

The blog is a custom one rather than Wordpress so that will help a LOT. Its pretty easy on the server I expect.

 

Whats wrong with wordpress, is it bloated?

 

I think he meant that it takes less load then wordpress on server.
Saad

 

http://www.shawnhogan.com/2006/04/wordpress-is-not-scaleable.html

My software uses 5 queries per page. WP uses about 16 I think.

 

Congrats on your success man - it's good to see Digg giving traffic to people who spend good time in writing good content

Rep added

 

Not sure about good content, the title was digg worthy though.

 

wow nice work

 

Don't expect much, digg users dont click. Digg is best to get more backlinks and maybe bookmarked if you have more good material on the site.

Even more than that, AFAIK.

More like 30 with WP 2.0

You'll be surprised (or not) how few diggers actually read the content.

 

ohh btw if you control the server use memcached (thanks shawn) and you can survive about anything

 

I'm still pretty impressed that you can survive a front-page Digg without resorting to replacing the dynamic page with a static one, on a shared host.

 

Don't be surprised. I survived slashdot on a shared host a few years back. It really depends on the server you are on.