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.

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

Ruben is really bored. So you can email him by clicking here. He usually gets back in 3 minutes or it could take up to 3 weeks depending on how addicted he is, to stumbleupon.  Been a little busy for a while, so I'm averaging about a blog every 2 moon cycles. If you are lucky, you'll get to see a new blog entry and know what I'm upto. And when you are here, just let me know by leaving a comment.