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Questions on site, and how it was downed by DIGG


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After seeing osx86project.com overwhelmed by digg, I couldn't help but wonder where the bottleneck was.

 

-Was it your host/connection?

-Was is PHP?

-Was it MySQL?

-Are you running any PHP optimizers or accelerators?

-Have you looked into distributing the load over multiple low cost hosts?

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Great question. From a traffic perspective we had around 1000 users on the forum before the diggs, plus 2 diggs going at the same time. Thankfully we're on our new server which could handle much more than before.

 

Since this was the first big action since we switched servers, we wanted to use it as a chance to test our settings and see what we should tweak.

 

If you're an expert in this area and have suggestions, we always welcome them!

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I'm too modest to call myself an expert on anything, but I'd be happy to help.

 

To give any suggestions, I'd first need to know where you believe the problem was. Was the CPU(s) pegged? By what processes? Was disk activity high? Did you saturate your allotted bandwidth? etc.

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