Sphinn - How to Survive Digg on a Shared Host

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Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 5:37 am
Posted By: jbones 551 days ago
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A simple php script that allows even the most feeble of sites on the cheapest shared hosting to survive Digg.

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from jbones 550 days ago #

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Burried on digg right after it went popular. Bummer.

from JMorris 548 days ago #

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LOL! The Digg police strike again! Probably got burried becuase it presents alternate content based on visitor count.

An alternative method would be to redirect the random number visitor to a mirror site using header(); Generating a static copy of the page that can be uploaded to a friend's server or a mirror service is pretty quick and easy and it would ensure that everyone would get to see the original content.

With a bit of tweaking, this could be useful for a wide range of sites and hosting budgets. You could even use a variation of this to load balance between multiple MySQL servers for dynamic sites if needed.