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Beginner’s Guide to Surviving Traffic Spikes
Social Media News Source: http://nowsourcing.com
Published: Oct 11, 2007 - 12:01 pm
Story Found By: tamar 1690 Days ago
Category: Social Media
What can you do if your blog hits Digg’s front page? You can take necessary precautions and apply some methods to handle the traffic better.
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from jeffquipp 1690 Days ago #
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Sound advice!

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from flyingrose 1690 Days ago #
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Those who don’t yet know what scalability is are likely to find out soon. Sites I stumble can crash under the unusual load. With the huge amounts of traffic social networking sites can send bloggers and especially ecommerce sites are at risk. Being mentioned in major media and especially on television may do the same. You may be hit with an unexpected bill for going over bandwidth limits or conversely, find out your hosting company disables your site if you hit your limit. The time to find out is before you miss out on your day of online fame. This is a good topic for coverage by bloggers in any niche as it pertains to all blogs and is more critical for ecommerce sites and especially those who count on the holiday selling season for their major profits. Imagine your site going down during prime holiday buying days? That can cause major losses.

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from IncrediBILL 1690 Days ago #
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Worse yet, you’re on a shared server and the sudden massive load on your account brings down hundreds or thousands of sites all in one shot.

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from PatrickSchaber 1689 Days ago #
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Thanks, Tamar. That’s a great post. I wish I had read it before my recent Digg experience!

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