Its a risk worth taking (financially) as even 20k uniqus spread throughout the day it would be fine. Common sense will tell you they wont recieve thousands of uniques within seconds of each other. Its just not that type of site, unless there is a sudden desire for this guys recipes then economically you are incorrect to recommend a dedicated server.
Looks like your site is down because of the flood of traffic this forum Thanks for sharing it with us, it is a very generous gesture.
Congrats on making $100 + This is what I want to earn but at the moment, I am no where near this target
First of all, congrats on your climb back to $100/day! Here's to many more! Secondly, I noticed you mention a MySQL performance problem. I would recommend checking out something called "memcached". It is an nifty little piece of software that helps reduce your dependency on the bottleneck often caused by databases. It essentially allows you to "cache" your pages/content/whatever straight in memory. The trick is figuring out how you want to manage changes to your "cache". But once you get it all setup, you will find your site can scale much larger and take the hits from being "dugg" or whatever a lot easier. We rolled memcached out for our site about 4-5 months ago and it solved our server performance problems hopefully for a long time. Good luck! Regards, Sockmoney
Can't believe the damn server has hung from 4pm to 2am UK time! MYSQL became so overwhelmed with connections it practically froze. I still don't understand why this happened again, OK more traffic, but not that much. Tried multiple reboots which made no difference and eventually couldn't log into SHH effectively, kept getting the password prompt but 19 out of 20 tries it would time out without logging in. Got KVM/IP access and issued a reboot only for that not to work and looked like the console either crashed or the reboot was occurring so slow that after 2+ hrs only a couple of items had closed! The server company i use decided to have a stupid day and took half a dozen emails for them to understand the server though responsive, wasn't usable and needed a hard reboot (normally they just reboot when I ask) that was irritating! They rebooted the server and at about 2am the server was working normally again. Very strange. Got login details for the new server, first they gave me the wrong password, got the right password and installed Virtualmin, issued a reboot because there was an error reported within Virtualmin (hoped it just needed a reboot) and the server became unresponsive about 10 mins before the old server started working again Despite all this my AdSense revenue is $46 for today, which is good considering the server was down for 8 of the highest traffic hrs today. I have a feeling this would have been a $100 day as well Will be moving the highest traffic site to the new server when I wake later, so hopefully that will solve the problem. David Law
This should be an encouraging factor for all those who think they can never make much money with adsense Work hard on it and the returns will be good
Man really you are doing a good job, for you this maynot be a great or a affordable one. But for some publishers this is a day dream. Keep trying and my advance congrats!! for your success.
So let me get this straight, to make 100 dollars a day you need a dedicated server and even then its maxing that one out? Seems like you would be making a lot more than 100 a day from the traffic that would max out a dedicated server. It might be cause you rely on adsense, which I've always said is a piss poor earner.
brilliant, it's always good to see site owners making some decent revenue from well thought out sites. Long may it continue
I don't think this guy is using a dedicated server. Someone suggested it and then I said a dedicated one was probably not necessary for the site just yet.
I've been using a dedicated server for years, so yes my sites (own over 100 domains) are on a dedicated server. I've either had some configuration/resource issues or server hardware problems (if not config/resource probs suggests hardware) this week and have rented a second server. Just moved my most popular site (the recipe one) to the new server to see how things goes, new server costs $99 a month (you have to pay 2 months in advance) and so worst case scenario if it's not something I've done wrong it's cost $200 to rule out some issues (lost much more than that from the downtime this week!). I'm always adding new large sites from various datafeeds, so will probably keep both servers long term. If only Google didn't hate thin affiliate content, I'd be a multi millionaire by now with how easy it is to make massive sites these days David Law
If you look on the menu there's links to a handful of Clickbank products that's relevant to the content. I used to have these links above the fold on the right menu, but only made 2 sales in 6+ weeks, now considering the number of visitors in that time the conversion rate SUCKED! Tried selling some ebooks from the site for cheap as a test, started with 2, ran the sales pages for a couple of weeks and zero sales so removed them. Also tried banner type ads to CJ products, some ads above the fold and after 250,000+ impressions I had ZERO sales!! That was a big surprise. Most traffic to the site is from long tail SERPs, so looking for specific recipes. With the sort of stuff I've tried above I've found you need content that doesn't supply what the visitor is exactly looking for (close, but not quite is best) and the content they find IS what they are looking for. Good for the visitor, bad for trying to sell them stuff. I think I'm lucky to have a AdSense CTR as high as 6% some days. I have a travel site that has the "doesn't quite offer what the visitors is looking for" type content and CTR can be as high as 10%. If I could find something else to make money from the site I'd try it, but so far only things that has worked is AdSense and before Google went all out on thin affiliate content Amazon affiliate stores. David Law