Comments on: Melting Virtual Servers: The Digg Effect http://blog.uncommons.org/2008/07/28/melting-virtual-servers-the-digg-effect/ Rants and opinion interspersed with awe-inspiring tales of heoric software engineering endeavours. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: New Adventures in Software » Wordpress Headaches: Caching and FeedBurner http://blog.uncommons.org/2008/07/28/melting-virtual-servers-the-digg-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2132 New Adventures in Software » Wordpress Headaches: Caching and FeedBurner Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:06 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=101#comment-2132 [...] Melting Virtual Servers: The Digg Effect [...] [...] Melting Virtual Servers: The Digg Effect [...]

]]> By: Kent Johnson http://blog.uncommons.org/2008/07/28/melting-virtual-servers-the-digg-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2113 Kent Johnson Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:33:00 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=101#comment-2113 Hey, submit your site to http://cp.trendics.com/register and we'll track the uptime of slicehost.com at http://tools.trendics.com/hosting -- just delete this comment. Hey, submit your site to http://cp.trendics.com/register and we’ll track the uptime of slicehost.com at http://tools.trendics.com/hosting — just delete this comment.

]]> By: Richard http://blog.uncommons.org/2008/07/28/melting-virtual-servers-the-digg-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2106 Richard Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:08 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=101#comment-2106 Good to see your site's backup, have to admit I had no problem viewing the page the other day.. although I came from dzone so most likely before the digg effect. I'd take a look at Lighttpd when you have the time.. I myself run wordpress and a few merb/rails apps on a slicehost slice with Nginx, I find Apache a memory hog. With a few tweaks in the config you can get WP Super Caching working easily (rewrites differ in Nginx than Apache). Is your slice on STL-B? As they had a DDoS attack Sunday which might of added to the slowness. Good to see your site’s backup, have to admit I had no problem viewing the page the other day.. although I came from dzone so most likely before the digg effect.

I’d take a look at Lighttpd when you have the time.. I myself run wordpress and a few merb/rails apps on a slicehost slice with Nginx, I find Apache a memory hog. With a few tweaks in the config you can get WP Super Caching working easily (rewrites differ in Nginx than Apache).

Is your slice on STL-B? As they had a DDoS attack Sunday which might of added to the slowness.

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