This is a post I’m proud to write. Yesterday, as many of you may have noticed, Blogging Blue was… unreliable. Well, there’s a good explanation for that. Apparently, one of the Gods of Reddit voted up Zach’s story on the Louisiana Congressman who thought the Onion article on the new Planned Parenthood Abortionplex was a true story. Funny, yes. But what happened next drove the site to it’s knees.
Take a look at this 48 hour snapshot of site activity I captured this morning.
Those little dots represent a normal day here at Blogging Blue. But that spike? Well, in agregate, that bulge represents a day with 25X the number of average hits we see here. That’s huge!
I think I’ll let Roy Scheider explain…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gciFoEbOA8
Looks like a standalone WorpPress install on GoDaddy? That’s my host as well. They ARE cheap though.
Yeah, we’re on their shared hosting plan, which definitely helped keep the site somewhat operational as compared to our last big story, the Randy Hopper mistress thing in March 2011.
Unlike then, we were never completely shut down yesterday….the site was just really slow.
At this point, I’m just wondering what else I can do to keep the site running smoothly.