How stumbleupon beat my server’s behind
Posted on Mar 28 in Meta Talk, Off Topicby NikaPrint
Let me just start by welcoming all you new visitors to my site from stumbleupon.
You all stumbled my site several months ago and I saw this curious spike in traffic, like 500 more hits one day than was usual. Thats when I first learned about this social networking site.
This last Sunday, I think, someone stumbled one of my posts and gave it a nice review. It was the one about Colombian arepa de huevo.. I thought that was just peachy because I think the world would be a better place if we all started the day with arepa de huevos (OK, just kidding, but it couldn’t hurt!)
Then, oh my goodness, my StatCounter ticker was changing by hundreds every time I refreshed my stats. Thats when I realized I was stumbled again, only this time, it was “stumble on steroids.”
When the stumble action peaked on Tuesday night – get this – we had a total of 6,382 visitors.
You stumblers were not happy just stumbling one post, oh no, you had to go and stumble the main URL, several categories, and some other posts. We could hear the server creaking and the hamsters really broke a sweat. At points, the server was down at 4% capacity left, with load averages over 20.00.
My feed stats have also jumped by something like 250% on FeedBurner.
Things have settled down now and we have installed a new colony of server hamsters (the previous batch get to go out to pasture and rest a bit).
I really appreciate all of your visits and I hope you all come on back and visit again.
Stop and smell the arepas anytime.
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You should be grateful, I see that your site has a Alexa rank of more than 1,000,000 that means your site does not have lots of traffic, you should consider upgrade your server and monetize your traffic. best of luck
I was more concerned about simply serving the traffic. This happened a long time ago (3/28/2007), hasnt happened much since. I am not a pro-blogger, I do not do this simply to make money off my visitors. I do this to interact with my visitors (tho I am behind with my comment replies ! :-/)