Posted on Sunday 10 December 2006 - Popularity: unranked
A shared hosting plan just isn’t enough if you launch something as cool as jMe. After being on the digg frontpage for half a day, other big sites like del.icio.us, reddit, stumbleupon have added the link to their frontpage as well and that was the moment my server gave up. Well, actually the server was still pretty stable, but the hosting provider just deactivated the site because of too much CPU load.
To not get into any more problems with my hosting provider, I’ve changed the timing of some jMe features. Especially the feed activity update and the spy feature will now update less frequently and there is now a one second delay on the live search feature (previously 0.75 seconds). Anyway, I’m currently looking for a VPS solution, most likely Spry to get around this issues. After all I don’t want to slow down my creativity just because I get too many hits.
Btw, the server registered nearly 1 million hits at the day my site got dugg and still nearly half a million at the following day where my account was already deactivated.
Fredi
