I'm asking the following questions because I'm planning to "market" some new thigns soon: Anybody have any idea as what amount of people will visit a site and what hosting requirements are needed to withstand a DIGG effect?
Digg isn't that bad, you should be OK if your pages are small. Expect 2 - 3,000 visitors the first hour then 1/2 it each following hour. Now if you get the Slashdot effect, that's a whole new kettle of fish. Good luck.
Thanks... I'm thinking of hosting images on a different server, just to be safe and monitoring closely during the process.
After one of my websites hit the Digg front page with around 500 diggs, it really wasn't that bad. I forgot how many visitors I had exactly, but there was around 15-20 visitors every minute. All-in-all, though, after the Digg effect, it only drained around 40 mb of bandwidth on my website total. I was using Textpattern which holds up pretty well under heavy traffic. BTW, I have a very lightweight website in terms of size.
Well, try to get your website gzipped, in static form preferably (no php at all) (it could be in cache form though). Image isn't generally the big problem, it's database request which loads the cpu a lot.
.... If my site ever got to DIGG or God forbid Slashdot I would prolly die of a heart attack before I could get up off the floor... hehe
Slashdot was cool, my site managed to survive and stay up. The first hour had 15 uniques/second, 900 uniques/minute or 54,000 uniques in the first hour. Overall they sent me 100k uniques before slipping off the front page. Pro: Lots of backlinks. Con: They don't click ads much. Pro: It still was my best day ever, making $xxx.xx
Slashdot is still cool, except I noticed they don't post News until about 3-days later these days... I find alot of stuff on other sites days before I do slashdot...
They are letting people work on a new design tho from what I have seen it's not much better but a little cleaner looking...
Sure, go to http://digg.com/ You can post an article or a link and it goes to http://digg.com/diggall no questions asked. Then people vote, or digg your addition. At about 40 or so diggs you make front page ( http://digg.com ) If you get enough diggs (vote) and make front page you can expect about 5K uniques from them.