Thank you, Slashdot!
Up until yesterday, Photocritic seemed to have been on every blog and website known to man, including MSNBC, Adobe, Digg, and scores of photography blogs. Yesterday, we captured the holy grail of web-traffic: A posting on Slashdot. Unfortunately, my lovely little server kicked the bucket before the fifth comment on slashdot.
Luckily, I have some amazing friends, in this case Matt, who moved the server from Apache to Boa, and turned everything into a statically driven. I have no idea how many visitors we ended up having (Google analytics claims around, 73K pageviews by 63K users, but that was only in the 6 hours before midnight – what happened after that I still don’t know). It was mental, and Boa dealt with it all without a hitch. That is – except for the fact that the rest of Photocritic and all other domains on this server were on their arse. But hey, it happens.
I’m glad that we’ve received a barrage of traffic, and I hope that some of you will keep coming back. We’ve got about half a dozen exciting new articles that will be published over the next few weeks – Stay tuned for more exciting DIY photography projects.
Oh – and of course, if you have any suggestions for articles, or if you wish to contribute an article, why not drop us an e-mail!
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Boa served 1.6 million hits before I switched it back. At its peak it was around 100 per second. With a load average of 0.1 or so across the board. Impressive.
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Joey
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