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Digg.com should have a cache
The digg effect can strike like lightning. Before you know it, Digg.com sends so many visitors to your website that it can't handle the traffic and becomes unavailable.
There are some things that you can do to prevent it: move images to another dumb & fast server, use a cache for PHP scripts, remove unnecessary functions. But every webmaster has to do that for his own site, preferably in advance. A lot of work for a lot of people.
I read Digg a lot and I often find that a dugg website is not available, especially right after it hits the front page. I digg such a story blindly if the title interests me, and a few days later I check the site again, or I put the site in Follow That Page which will send me an email on the day the website is available.
It would be better if Digg.com had a cache, like Google has. If the digg effect made a website unavailable, you could still read a copy of it from the cache. It could be a very simple 'lynx --dump' text-only output, or it could be a 'gnome-web-photo' output that includes all images.
I will post this article on Digg.com. Probably my site will be crippled by the digg effect, but I don't mind: it would illustrate my point.
If you agree that Digg.com should have a cache, then please digg this article.
Onno - jan 3, 2007, 22:45 - 1 comment
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