Could a page of your site getting big on digg be devastating?

What i'm trying to know is, could it flood your site and cause it to shut down?

 

Yes, if you don't have enough RAM, or bandwidth for that matter.

 

If this page got digged, www.dumbnerd.com/articles/scientology.php

And I have 250 gb monthly and only used 2gb how bout that?

 

Look at
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/donate.html

Why is Shawn upgrading these servers??!! Because of ONE Digg listing!!!

 

Digg is good for about 10K uniques in the first 24 hours although 90% comes in the first 2 hours or so.

My guess is you could survive 3 slashdots and 6 diggs in one month.

 

Wow if you hit the front page you get atleast 10k visitors all at once can mean some serious damage. I wonder if someone could sue digg?

 

http://digg.com/movies/The_Big_Middle_Finger_to_Scientology_

See someone from my site dugg this article literrally 10 seconds after I wrote it. And it's constantly getting digged. So i'm getting worried just incase.

 

Sue some one for sending you a lot of visitors that are interested in your site...nice...you got to be smoking crack to even think of that idea!!!!

 

Well that's the positive. I'm focusing on the negative.

 

1 digg = no worries. Remember I said you could survive 4 farks, I meant slashdots and 1 slashdot = 10 diggs. That is monthly bandwidth wise you coukd survive.

If you have little traffic to start with and the first hour of Digg causes problems then it's time to get a new host.

The first hour of slashdot really puts your host to the test and many do not make it.

 

No worries, just 301 all the digg traffic to me, I'll handle them for ya.

Oh and I dugg it.

 

Personally, I think even if getting on the front page of digg brings your servers down, it's worth it. You'll probably get a lot of natural backlinks from it.

 

Is anyone familiar with how (GoDaddy's servers) take front page digg hits? Because i'm using godaddy hosting.

 

I had a lot of traffic and had my servers shut down for a while (costing me $$$).

I have finally found a host to handle massive traffic. (I host a lot of images and thus a ton of bandwith)

If anyone needs a recommendation for a host that can handle 500gigs bandwith transfer+ a month let me know. I think I use 600+ with no problems.

It is in the $35-$50 range/month (obviously, unlimited domains on that account)

 

Awww no I made it to the front page, I don't know if I should be nervouse or if I should take it as a compliment.

http://digg.com/

Averaging 10 diggs a minute.

EDIT: Ok make that 20 diggs a minute. Oh boy, i'm feeling sick.

 

Which article is yours!!!

 

Wow some kids on Digg can be cruel, I don't like reading their comments just a bunch of tough guy nerds.

 

The big middle finger to Scientology!

 

Just "thumbs-down" the offending ones

 

The nerds reported it to get it off the main page. Some people can be complete assholes.