A few of you may have noticed that this website was down yesterday – this blog’s gotten a bit too big for shared hosting and I’ll need to move it onto a VPS/dedicated server. I already had a dedicated server but recently canceled it as I had tons of unused space and it was slow as hell; anyways, I’ll be looking to upgrade.
The blog currently uses HostICan shared hosting, which I’d recommend to anyone starting up in the industry – their package for a newbie is pretty sweet considering they allow unlimited addon domains and unmetered bandwidth… if your website gets too big though, you’ll need to move, as I’m doing now. I’m going to make an in depth post about HostICan later this week, but for now if you want to signup for the Tera Host package you can use the coupon code University-12 to get $40/off; if you sign through my affiliate link and coupon code, I’ll also give you an hour of my time setting up your blog.
I’m thinking of upgrading to their VPS-Rage package which costs $45.00/month; the features of it are shown below.
I’ve just been notified by my buddy Carlin that the reason for this blog going down is due to it being pwned by Digg – the funny thing is that the article which got submitted was one about using proper hosting… and as soon as it got dugg, my hosting crashed. A tad embarassing, but if you guys are going to submit to Digg and then follow up, please let me know first and don’t do so at the moment, as Digg kills shared hosting, as a few of you will have unfortunately found out 
You can check out the submitted stories here:
1) Warning – The Web Hosting Business Is Not For Kids (I’m a kid, so I do have an excuse for the server crash )
2) What does the room of a Teenage IM look like?
Total of more than 500 Diggs – I’d be interested in knowing who Bulger is. 
. Read the comments if you want a laugh, having not known about being Dugg or the multiple crashes, I thought they were pretty funny. 
Anyways, I’m considering moving to Hostican as they will move everything for me and I love their support, but if anyone has other ideas, just let me know. I don’t want to go with GoDaddy or Hostgator as they have too much of a bad reputation – I’m looking for hosting with people that will help you move over and are established – price is also important of course
Get the popcorn out
Those of you that like a little blogging controversy might want to check out the post at John Cow about Graham Langdon and Entrecard comment bashing… it’s an interesting read
Got to run, insane amounts of work these days with a couple essays and two mid terms coming up next week. I’ll be needing guest posters soon enough – if you’re interested, add me on MSN/Yahoo.
I’m also thinking of releasing a custom created eBook and a sales page for it, similar to the quality of the one over here – and charge say, $50/package. How many of you would be interested in purchasing that?
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Congrats jason. Getting a dedicated server is the first step to moving
towards the big league
You would have gotten more diggs if you have done this:
“This has gotten 58 diggs? And the room isn’t disgusting, odd colored, or have weird stuff in it?”
LMAO funny though.
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am
pwned bish
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
welcome back jason.. I thought I was typed the wrong URL… anyway congrats for your new dedicated server!
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March 11th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I wonder, how you can get so many PPL digg your story even thats only ordinary posting I think. what special that make tons trafic an make your site down ?
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March 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
You may want to look at the wp-super-cache plugin for next time.
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March 11th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
This honestly makes no sense to me, and shouldn’t make much sense to most of you. A blog… on a dedicated server? A blogsite should NEVER demand much resources. I don’t know what you could be storing on your server in order to “run out of space” but it would need to be like movies or something because text files and images (blogs) isn’t going to cut more than 500MB in the most extreme case. Please let me know your secrets
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March 11th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I host my blog from a reseller package that I own. I have never had a problem with my host and would highly recommend using them if you haven’t yet purchased your new package. I won’t post a link cause I don’t want to spam up the thread, but if you want to know about it you can email me.
How many diggs did you get by chance, I mean I haven’t been lucky enoughto have this happen to me as the 2 stories I have had submitted on digg have barely made it to 20 diggs. What kind of traffic are we talking about?
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March 11th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
@ Jim, its the bandwidth, and use of resources that’s the issue, not the space. I only use 2 GB of space at the moment for my current hosting, and although it says bandwidth is ‘unmetered’ they will kill your website if you use too much.
@ Adam, will do so. Posting links (even affiliate ones) is fine as long as you add something to the discussion, which you have done
As for the Diggs, 500 on the first one, 100 ish on the second. Around 5k visitors straight up, I think.
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March 11th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Hostgator’s shared hosting servers are great. I managed to be with them on shared even when I used to get 20,000 page views a day and 3-5k uniques a day. But ultimately was asked to upgrade lol. I took a VPS then. Dont take VPS just for digg traffic, go for a better shared hosting, as digg traffic doesnt come everyday.
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March 11th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
There are some hilarious comments on those Digg Posts!…
Congrats on reaching and experiencing the Digg effect!..
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March 11th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
If your hosting company can’t afford this digg effect, probably change the host and I believe a blog website won’t need dedicated hosting considering no memory intensive tasks on a blog except some spike in traffic once in a while. Talk to HostICan guys to find out providing better service.
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March 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Congrats on your traffic!! Hope your blog gets bigger and bigger, i will work hard towards mine too..
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Haha that’s pretty funny! I wish that dedicated hosting wasn’t so expensive but I guess it’s worth it to keep on expanding your site. That deal of a domain for life is very cool also!
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
You probably don’t need to go dedicated just for this blog, dedicated servers take some seriously heavy loads and your blog isn’t going to use even a quarter of that so it might be a waste of money…just go for a bigger shared hosting plan and save quite a bit…
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March 11th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Well, I hope you have WP-Cache installed, it helps! I have experienced the same thing but with Reddit it’s more power than Digg.
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Mediatemple for the win! I hit 100,000 Digg readers and my server only had a 15 second error page while it told people that the server was upgrading to a larger mysql database.
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March 12th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I see the irony in this.
Good luck!
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March 12th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Thats pretty good that you got on the front page of Digg with only about 305 subscribers so far. Congrats!
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March 12th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Explain this to me. You are suggesting that we start off on a hosting company that is great for beginners and then suggest when we become successful we change hosts? You do know the dangers of changing hosts, as well as the complexity. Wouldn’t is just make sense to start on a host with decent all around rates and upgrade as needed?
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March 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Dedicated server > vps > shared
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—-> Big time!
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March 12th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Dedicated Server is very costly. Why waste that much cash? Dedicated solutions are when your site has just too much traffic.
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March 12th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Mayank Rocks you can also all more videos on your dedicated server
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March 12th, 2008 at 3:51 am
I noticed your server went down… congrats on getting dugg though.
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March 12th, 2008 at 4:16 am
LOL – And by killing your shared server, you took down the other 330+ websites on that shared server (see http://www.myipneighbors.com)
Ah well, the price of inexpensive shared hosting comes from somewhere else other than cash.
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March 12th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Haha, the comments are funny. Looks like you made history with Digg.
“best. submission. ever.”
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“Says a guy whose server goes down after 114 diggs
Lmao lmao lmao.
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March 12th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Might be your future posts regarding hosts will help me in future…..
I did not get where to subscribe for feedburner feed. The link you have given at the top (/feed) is showing up as (title unknown) in google reader. Hope you rectify it…..
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March 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
This is kinda funny.The blog is down and the story on dig gas like 600 digs
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March 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
my suggestion – A VPS with 384 guarenteed memory won’t stand up to a good digg-ing, to be totally honest.
Your shared host is probably running at least 2gigs of RAM, and you still killed it, with however many other non-dugg sites on there.
When you move up, you want to go for something with at least 512 dedicated memory, and you definitely want to check the contention ratio (how many VPSs you are sharing a 100mbit connection with), because this effects your speed massively
And you know what they say, good content = diggs
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March 12th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Hey Pavan,
Try http://feeds.feedburner.com/theuniversitykid/uni
Cheers,
Jason
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March 13th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Congrats on all the Diggs!
Thanks for people suggestion of the WP-Cache, great idea. I’ll look into it for my sites.
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March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Congrats! You can say you’re a pro now, ey?
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March 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Beware, you have just been dugg. Ha, that was interesting to read.
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March 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
heh, I went over there and dugg
- Why is your feed /theuniversitykid/uni ? I don’t get that
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:37 am
A new hosting for you, congratulation.
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March 20th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
LOL The Power and Price of digg.com
So good.. yet it can be so bad!
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July 21st, 2008 at 2:52 am
One day I will need to upgrade because my traffic is so huge!
Sadly it is not this day
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January 25th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Hmmm, well when you know that your server is down due to people entering in huge numbers, then you know your getting good traffic. Nice job.
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