With Bigger Traffic Comes Bigger Problems
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*** Warning!! May contain personal gloating and self promotion ***
January has been an amazing month for Linuxhaxor. Every since this site has been mentioned in lifehacker the feed growth and daily hits have both doubled. With Recent update of google pagerank (though it didn’t affect our pagerank), search results for certain keywords are now more favorable. Google organic traffic is now the most significant source of traffic for this blog.
All this is good only if you have a host that can handle the traffic. Since the beginning of this blog (when I was hosting this site from my home server) linuxhaxor was in the front page of digg 8 times (my count), every single time this site has gone down. This site has gone down even when hit by stumbleupon and lifehacker. I guess this is the price you pay for having your site hosted in a shared environment.
Well, not anymore. Today I signed up with a leading hosting service for a dedicated server. the specs are: Dual Xeon 2.4, 4096mb RAM, 2×80gb SATA and 2,500gb Bandwidth. I think this should take care of the traffic for the time being.
On a side-note this process of moving this blog to it’s new home will be done in the next 48 (according to my host the time needed to setup dedicated server) During this time the site may not be visible for long period of time.
Some stats for the site, though it’s not absolutely ground breaking, it certainly is something I am proud of.
Last 30 days Traffic:
Last 7 months Traffic. This stat is not correct for many reasons. I updated my word press template many many times, some of you who have been following this blog long enough will probably know it. Unfortunately each time I updated the template I didn’t update the site meter code to track traffic. Same thing with google analytics.
Feed stat by feed burner:
Feed stat by blogperfume.com:
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congrats on the success of your site. however, something with those figures dont seem right (way too low) or your web host simply must not be configured correctly. I own a web hosting company and those figures shouldn’t even come close to affecting a server. I just checked one of my personal web sites I host, the maysville linux users group web site, and it received 1,268,452 page views last month….not even so much as a burp on my web server (which hosts about 100 domains on that one server - and most of the other domains have even higher traffic). If you were using a cheap web hosting provider, that might have been the reason for your problems.
Ed you are right. I was on a cheap hosting with very bad service. And I have been down so many times (every stumble hits storm or digg submission and reddit traffic) that my stats (I host 5 other blogs on the same server) dont even tell you half the story. Remember everytime the site is down, stats don’t work. Also as I mentioned my stats weren’t working when I changed wordpress theme couple of time.
Hopefully dedicated will solve the problem.
I do have very limited experience with hosting service providers. If I had reasonably good ISPs where I live I would rather host it myself. Which is how I like it. It’s challenging (can be a bit expensive) and fun!!
i like the web site, so if your dedicated hosting gets too expensive, shoot me an email and let me know what you need as far as bandwidth and space goes.
Thanks Ed for the offer. I already signed up with the dedicated host. And I will see how it goesn for atleast 2 months. If it’s too expensive or me to handle I will definately shoot you an email for help.
Cheers!