Can Dream Host Handle the Digg Effect?

Posted this here because Digg is related to website visitors on a big way.

Anyway, I have Level 1 hosting here (20 GB space, 1 TB bandwith) and was wondering if a PHP website here could adequately handle the traffic from Digg. I know I have more than enough bandwith, but visitors from Digg come in such a short amount of time that they often crash servers! At my old web host (which is the best web host in terms of features and speed I've found), I received 50,000 hits in just a few hours from Digg. The server I was on had a P4 running at around 3 GHz as well as 1-2 GB of RAM. And when the Digg traffic came, it crashed MYSQL and HTTP on the server! Both were down for several hours.

You might like to read a recent thread about the Slashdot effect.

If you want to be able to handle Digg, Slashdot, etc you're probably best off using caching or making pages static.

Actually I've seen a site on Digg (twice) from DreamHost. It was the blog of those people who talking about growing plants in a skyscraper environment. It was even talking about on Diggnation.

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http://digg.com/security/Network_Sniffing_Screensaver:_PacketFountain,_Now_that_s_Cool_

Dugg site/page is doing well:

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/packetfountain

Don't blame me if you use windos, install the scr and have any problems. :-)

Cheers,

BobS

It depends on the subject I guess, if you've ever been to xtremesystems.net, you'll find their server gets killed by slashdot... even though it is probably on some seriously expensive hosting.