3 ms·
It's a shame that several years after the term "slashdot effect" was coined, self-hosted personal blogs are still vulnerable to this easily preventable phenomen
by kijin 15y ago
It's a shame that several years after the term "slashdot effect" was coined, self-hosted personal blogs are still vulnerable to this easily preventable phenomenon. The companies that host the majority of the world's small web sites, such as BlueHost, DreamHost, and (heavens forbid) GoDaddy, have not made any innovations in this department. Most VPS's are no different.
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is really good at handling traffic spikes, for both static and dynamic sites. It combines the convenience of shared hosting with the scalability of cloud computing. You just need to insert more coins when you run out of your prepaid traffic.
- marquis 15y agoWhere is the financial incentive for these hosting companies to do so? Most users will never see a traffic spike that can take down your average VPS or bluehost site. It seems there is a gap in the market for self-hosted sites that have built-in structures to build upon that allow for traffic spiking.
- edanm 15y agoIsn't the gap filled by companies like Posterous/Tumbler? For the average user, they answer the problem of "put something online and make sure it stays there" perfectly well.
- Joakal 15y agoNearlyFreeSpeech was the cloud before it became popular. The other services are just hosting many websites on a server.
- iamben 15y agoI had just under 90k uniques in a 24 hour period (and 170k-ish pageviews) on NFS last month and it held up without any problems :-) I think it cost me about 10 cents. Brilliant.