Comments on: Courting the Masses? http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2006%2F06%2Fcourting-the-masses%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Courting+the+Masses%3F by Adrian Cooke Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:56:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Hampton http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2006%2F06%2Fcourting-the-masses%2F%23comment-185&seed_title=Courting+the+Masses%3F#comment-185 Michael Hampton Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:12:40 +0000 http://ztoe.net/?p=58#comment-185 Considering that TXD have had people /.ed before, I'm not terribly surprised. Considering that TXD have had people /.ed before, I’m not terribly surprised.

]]> By: Ads http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2006%2F06%2Fcourting-the-masses%2F%23comment-184&seed_title=Courting+the+Masses%3F#comment-184 Ads Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:08:15 +0000 http://ztoe.net/?p=58#comment-184 You make a good point. I did a little digging through my webhost's forums: inconclusive on the question of exactly what would happen to a shared account if the owner's site was hit heavily enough. The vibe I got was that being throttled or taken offline would not be out of the question, although it seems like they are better prepared than most for dealing with the effects of a "<a href="http://weblog.textdrive.com/article/44/taking-a-full-frontal-slashdot-lighttpdly" title="Taking a Full Frontal Slashdot Lighttpdly" rel="nofollow">full frontal slashdot</a>" (i.e. front page slashdot on a shared account). You make a good point. I did a little digging through my webhost’s forums: inconclusive on the question of exactly what would happen to a shared account if the owner’s site was hit heavily enough. The vibe I got was that being throttled or taken offline would not be out of the question, although it seems like they are better prepared than most for dealing with the effects of a “full frontal slashdot” (i.e. front page slashdot on a shared account).

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2006%2F06%2Fcourting-the-masses%2F%23comment-183&seed_title=Courting+the+Masses%3F#comment-183 Michael Hampton Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:35:04 +0000 http://ztoe.net/?p=58#comment-183 You're only safe as long as nobody reads what you've written, thinks it's good, and submits it to somewhere. I'm told that earlier today I was on the digg front page, and I DIDN'T submit there. Fortunately the server can now easily handle anything digg can throw at me. The lesson here for those of you on shared hosting is this: Your host has likely not made any of these performance tweaks and will be unable to stand up to a large crowd of users coming in all at once. The usual shared-host response to getting /.ed is to suspend your account. You’re only safe as long as nobody reads what you’ve written, thinks it’s good, and submits it to somewhere. I’m told that earlier today I was on the digg front page, and I DIDN’T submit there. Fortunately the server can now easily handle anything digg can throw at me.

The lesson here for those of you on shared hosting is this: Your host has likely not made any of these performance tweaks and will be unable to stand up to a large crowd of users coming in all at once. The usual shared-host response to getting /.ed is to suspend your account.

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