Confirmed: The Digg-Effect Will Own You

I made it to the front page of Digg yesterday for the first time — very exciting stuff. What’s not so exciting is that my web server was not available for the few hours that it was being obliterated by Digg users. I can’t imagine how many tried to see the article but weren’t able to while my server was reduced to a foul-smelling liquid.

Anyway, I’ll be taking a look at the logs to see what the bottleneck was: apache, the database, bandwidth, or some combination of the three. Looks like I may be in for an upgrade to the server, assuming it’s not cost prohibitive. But first I have to find out which piece took the beating…