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also dont be a dumbass like me and double post

Haha great tips…keep them coming shoemoney!

When would you recommend setting this up? Being that you can’t really predict when and what article will get the spike.

you can run it all the time

Came to this from digg and my RSS feed. Did not redirect me either times =\

How often does nyud.net slurp content into the cache? Maybe it will pull the cache upon the first access so there is effectively no waiting period required.

I didn’t get redirected?

Dumb question: How does one get or set up a, as it says above, “the mirrored cached copy of your website” ?

i think it checks back hourly for a new version

Dumb question: How does one get, find or set up a, as it says above, “mirrored cached copy of your website” ?

I got dugg pretty hard just last week and what I did was save the page of my blog as .htm upload it to my server and did a 301 redirect to that html page. The load and bandwidth significantly dropped.

Informative post!

Great idea. Thx for the hint.

just by using that domain it works

Now I just need to write more articles…
Thanks for the great piece of code.

CoralCDN does not automatically rewrite links, so any pages that do not contain a referer from Digg/* will not get redirected. Many anaylists of the Digg/* Effect show that most vistors don’t go past the first page, so this may not be a problem.

Great post. Thanks for the tip.

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What if you’re running WP-Cache on WordPress? That should take care of the caching, right? So would you still need this?

Brush With Digg…

No, this isn’t a toothpaste ad. I had my first brush with Digg over the weekend when someone submitted a link to my recent Zune post, saying Apple better watch out. Seeing the rise in traffic was amusing, and early this morning my server had some…

fyi, these 3 posts have the same no. of diggs, must be something wrong here?
http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/09/30/the-key-to-being-anti-social-how-to-deal-with-diggs-slashdot-delicious-ect/
http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/09/24/so-long-technorati-top-100/
http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/09/24/searchfeed-please-take-me-off-all-lists-already/

This code looks to be useful, but if the user doesn’t pass referers (many firewalls block sending referers) they won’t get redirected.

Also, I tested the code today from the Digg article and went thru to your homepage where the current title is “One Year Of Blogging…. Pretty Wild”. Kinda confusing to the user (me) who clicked a link in Digg marked “Be Anti-Social - How To Deal With Diggs, Slashdots, Delicious And The Like”.

Something amiss in your .htaccess file?

[...] Das diese Vorgehensweise in der Tat nützlich für den eigenen Traffic sein kann, zeigt z.B. eine Trafficstatistik bei Guy Kawasaki. Es soll ja in diesem Zusammenhang auch schon einen Menge Leute geben, die mit dem Mörder Traffic von z.B. Digg servertechnich nicht mehr klar kommen. Falls einer von euch auch solche Probleme hat, schaut mal bei Shoe Money vorbei. (Der Artikel heißt übrigens “The Key To Being Anti-Social - How To Deal With DIggs, Slashdot, Delicious, etc” und hat im Moment 832 Diggs !!!!! - Der Mann hat also bestimmt schon einige Erfahrung mit Mörder Traffic. (Irgendwie zu beneiden …) [...]

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Prevent site downtime from traffic surges…

Shoemoney posts a nice little tutorial on how to avoid your site going down if it receives a sudden surge of traffic from sites such as Slashdot, Digg, etc.

Add this to your .htaccess file in your r……

Would this still make statcounters increase?

[...] .htaccess Code to Install if You’re Being Digged, Slashdotted, Farked, BoingBoinged, and So On (tags: useful geekery reference) [...]

It looks to me like that last line should be changed a little, ie

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.shoemoney.com.nyud.net:8080/1 [R,L]

Otherwise won’t you get a double slash in the destination address? (Keep in mind that I am new to mod_rewrite, so I could be wrong here…)

[...] After the site was shut down a friend chimed in via e-mail and gave me a heads up to this link. Shoemoney explains how to deal with an avalanche of traffic by editing the .htaccess file so that your site re-directs to a mirror. [...]

Isn’t it true that this requires that the user’s browser sends a referrer, which many people block, negating the solution in many cases?

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i just implemented this on my blog… but it is showing the main page… not the post, what should i change?

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[...] option would be to “frame” the page and still make use of the caching server. Jeremy also has information about how to deal with temporary surges in traffic. I’ve had sites on the home page of [...]

And some else…….

the most interest…

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