Surviving a slashdotting and an Instalanche

  • Folks, I run climateaudit.org.

    It runs on a server with 1MB RAM and has a 10M connection to the net.

    Yesterday, it got hit by an instalanche. This was followed by digg and today we got slashdotted and mentioned by Rush Limbaugh (why us?). We’re about to get mentioned by Fox News.

    The mysql server simply melted under the strain.

    I have installed wp-cache and digg defender to no avail.

    Any suggestions for hosting, server configuration, WordPress configuration, mysql configuration or tranquilizers gratefully received.

    WordPress.com offers a nice service but $300 a month is too much.

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  • There are some, I recommend https://www.icdsoft.com. They are not that popular but I bet you will be happy with them. They have 2 hosting plans but you can upgrade some of them like data transfer and storage size.

    Also check their 2 data center info, I-Advantage and Savvis.
    https://www.icdsoft.com./data.php

    John, first: congrats. While that may sound awful, having a popular website is a good thing.

    Unfortunately, right now, your site is unreachable (there’s a server message there), so that’s not a real solution.

    It sounds like you need a dedicated server. If you already have one, then perhaps you need to look into increasing bandwidth and/or server configuration. If you already have, then it may be that you need to go further with multiple servers.

    Thread Starter JohnA

    (@johna)

    I blocked most people apart from the subnets that I and Steve are using (and a couple of others). Hence the 403 Forbidden message.

    We’ve had to block pretty much everybody because of the enormous traffic from Instapundit, digg, slashdot and god forbid, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News

    And a few hundred blogs.

    Steve has just been on Calgary radio.

    I’ve been in touch with Alex at wordpress.com and he has said that they will host CA which will be the best, most robust way to host a blog that occasionally makes the 7 o’clock news.

    From Steve’s perspective its great to get such attention. For me, as the webhost its a nightmare.

    Hopefully Alex will contact me soon to arrange the transfer of the export.

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