Dugg And Lived To Tell About It

written by John Chow on July 25th, 2006

The TechZone got Dugg today and lived to tell about it. Digg has grown really big since the last time TTZ got Dugg and I was wondering if the upgraded servers would be able to handle the load from a site that does 200 million page views a month.

The initial Digg put a huge strain on the Apache server and maxed out the available RAM (4GB). This slowed the site down to crawl. However, after a quick reboot, everything work fine and we were able to handle everything the Digg put on us. This blog and the TTZ Media Network was not affected by the Digg because they’re on separate servers.

Oh ya, the obvious question; how much was this Digg worth? Answer: about $300 extra income. Enough for a night out on the town!

Sam said on July 25th, 2006 at 9:41 pm

Now that’s nice!

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Carl said on July 25th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

Never thought it would happen, but Digg now sends more traffic than slashdot.

Slashdot’s editor-based news is considered obsolete now. I guess their readers got sick of seeing links to crappy reviews of mice and computer cases on the front page

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Geiger said on July 26th, 2006 at 7:08 am

Compared to a normal organic visit, did the average Digg visitor bring in the same amount of revenue?

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John Chow said on July 26th, 2006 at 11:46 am

It really depends on the article and how targetted the ad is. I had no matching TTZ Media product to use for the dugg article and as a result didn’t make anywhere near what it would had made if the Digg had been to a review with a matching product.

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