Ok so I submitted my last post to Digg.com, just for a laff. Lists on Digg always tend to do quite well, so I thought I’d give it a crack. Turns out people seemed to rather like my article, and it made it to the front page of Digg.com.

For those of you that don’t know Digg is a bookmark/news site where links are submitted to the page and if registered digg users like the article, they digg it, once an article gets popular enough, it makes it to the main page of digg. And for lowly little sites like mine, the link gets hit with literally hundreds of thousands of hits in a very short space of time, and in a lot of cases, the server cannot handle it, and it shuts down. It took my site about 10 minutes to lose it’s marbles, in fact, it seemed to shut down a whole server in Melbourne with quite a few other sites on it. My webhost put it down as a DoS attack, which it well may have been, but it seems a bit too convenient that a DoS attack would occur at the same time my website could have got more hits than it’s ever had in it’s entire 6 year lifespan put together. Digg gets around 1,000,000 unique hits per day, when you’re put on the front page, you’re bound to get a least 10% of that, and I’d have to say I’m not particularly happy with my webhost not being able to withstand even an ounce of that kind of traffic, my web stats don’t even register any spike in traffic whatsoever. Despite my post on digg managing to get (as of the time of this post) 3172 Diggs and 646 comments.

Not happy Jan.