{"id":392,"date":"2022-09-04T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/2022\/09\/04\/i-am-facing-foreclosure-com-most-hated-blogger-on-msn-and-server-nightmare-4\/"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:41:45","slug":"most-hated-blogger-on-msn-and-server-nightmare-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/most-hated-blogger-on-msn-and-server-nightmare-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Hated Blogger on MSN and Server Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Man oh man… last couple of days have been crazy. I switched DNS like 3 times trying to find a server and provider that will handle the traffic on this foreclosure blog. I stayed up all night when I was on the front page of MSN (May 16th midnight till 9 AM PST) with Declan McCullagh’s<\/a> World’s Most Hated Blogger<\/a> article I was trying to see if I can do anything to keep the new dedicated server running but it came down to a crawl and then completely died. <\/p>\n

Almost 16,000 visitors on Tuesday and almost 70,000 on wednesday! Those number would have been probably two to five times higher because if my site wasn’t down for a large part of the day on Tuesday and very very slow with intermittent downtime on Wednesday. The highest peak upto this point was 11,000 visits when I was briefly on the front page of SFgate.com<\/a> (San Francisco Chronicle) for the “Would Be Real Estate Mogul”<\/a> article by Carol Lloyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out the traffic graphs from SiteMeter and Google Analytics:<\/p>\n

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I got really pissed off (mostly at myself) for not preparing for this. I’ve been in different media since last October and had plenty of time to find a reliable hosting service. <\/p>\n

Yesterday, a website designer buddy of mine recommended MediaTemple<\/a> because they have a “digg<\/a> proof” hosting (or MSN \/ CNet proof in my case). <\/p>\n

At only $20\/mo they have a sweet “Grid” platform which is a bunch of clustered servers that will keep your site running even if its hit by a surge of traffic. Because of the scalability this setup promised to be even better than a $100-200\/month dedicated server. <\/p>\n

If I need even more performance for an additional $20\/mo I can get a dedicated MySQL container<\/a> to keep my database running smooth. I will have to find a way to do some load testing to see at which point I will need something like that.<\/p>\n

So far things are running very good. Let me know what your experience is like with the site. If you choose MediaTemple<\/a> as your host, be sure to enter “iamfacingforeclosure.com” as your referring domain to give me a small kick-back. (Cash back at close… hehe)<\/p>\n

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Filed under photos<\/a>, blogging<\/a>, sweet media<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not Baiting Haterz. Just Keepin’ It Real.<\/a><\/div>\n
All You Have to Do Is Ask. Sweet!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man oh man… last couple of days have been crazy. I switched DNS like 3 times trying to find a server and provider that will handle the traffic on this foreclosure blog. I stayed up all night when I was on the front page of MSN (May 16th midnight till 9 AM PST) with Declan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14,29,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamfacingforeclosure.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}