How "Digg for Pics" got 100'000 uniques and survived on a $9.95/mo shared webhosting.

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by pkrumins, Sep 6, 2007.

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    Hey guys,

    You might be interested in this.

    I made a digpicz.com a picture site for digg and it received an amazing burst of traffic from Digg.

    I had foreseen this and had written a program which pre-generated the pages before serving them to users. It was like everything was cached.

    I ran it on DreamHost (aff) shared hosting server and it handled 100'000 uniques and 200'000 page views with no noticeable performance degradation!

    I released full source code (Perl scripts) of the website and documented how I created it:
    Designing Digg Picture Website

    After the first day I launched it I wrote an article with traffic statistics and how I handled the load to my blog now (it got both digpicz.com and catonmat.net (my blog, running wordpress) submitted to digg with an hour difference)

    This article is here:
    A Few Words About digpicz.com

    I am now working on popurls.com like site for pictures which aggregates best stuff from 10-20 buzziest sites on the net ;)


    I hope you enjoy the articles,
    P.Krumins
     
    pkrumins, Sep 6, 2007 IP