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We are back in business!

August 5, 2007 at 11:37 pm · Filed under News & Update

The website was down all night yesterday, thanks to StumbleUpon (Hey stumblers!)

RubenBabu.com went down a little after 23:00 Hours and took TheJesusMyth along with it. I was surprised to find that it was one of my PHP scripts that caused Apache Server to shutdown on the Slashdot Phenomenon. The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website (Like StumbleUpon) linking to a smaller sites, causing the smaller sites to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic.

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Although we get well over 25,000 unique visitors (multiply that with page views) on TheJesusMyth, it was simply my scripts (and my traffic) that caused almost all of the trouble. I think I burned just a little too much CPU on our server. We have sorted it out and it will not appear again, hopefully.

We have worked out the issue with our hosting company & needless to say, we will be shifting our hosting company to a service that is able to handle the load. Any Suggestions? (we need more juice than what MediaTemple, Hostgator & 1&1 hosting services offer)

& Now, for the post that caused all this traffic,
Christians don’t understand Atheist Quotes

-Ruben

Toni a.k.a. "Fruit Loop" said,

August 5, 2007 @ 11:42 pm

Glad you are back in business and have it all sorted out. :O)

The Jesus Myth said,

August 5, 2007 @ 11:47 pm

And, no, I did not kick his ass. Stuff happens and that’s the way I look at it. Ruben had no idea that the PHP scripts that caused the overload would be a problem. Everything is being cached now to take some of the load off the server.

jon said,

August 6, 2007 @ 8:11 pm

glad to hear you are back online;)

Ruben said,

August 6, 2007 @ 9:00 pm

So am I, JonDT623090.
& I’m glad you are back on 360 with your kitty self again.

-Ruben

Seven Things to Hate About StumbleUpon said,

August 29, 2007 @ 3:33 am

[...] First of all, I love StumbleUpon! None of the social bookmarking sites available today can come even close to it (Sorry to say this Diggers!) . The best thing is, it makes all the better things on the internet available for everyone & It has a remarkable ability to produce unimaginable levels of traffic to a website. Believe me, I know. [...]

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