Whird Survives A Good Digging
My prototype blogging application, "Whird" has survived its recent digging intact. I'd like to thank everyone who dug [is that grammatically correct?] my recent post — you've really helped me to get a better understanding of Whird's performance under stressful loads.
The post itself made it to both the front page of Digg, and Del.icio.us. It attracted more than 15,000 unique visitors and 30,000 page views over a two day period. Thankfully the increased traffic caused no noticeable/obvious problems and the site performed well. I didn't have to make any modifications to the code or enable any page caching.
To be honest, I wasn't quite sure what to expect in the way of traffic from a successful Digg — so I contacted a fellow Ubuntu user who also had an article featured on Digg this weekend. Jonathan was kind enough to share his Wordpress stats with me and from what I can tell, the stats are roughly what one should expect.
All-in-all I'm really pleased with how things have gone. Hopefully it'll encourage me to pull my finger out and get the initial release of Whird out the door.
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