The Digg Effect - Can your hosting plan handle this? [Pic]

October 20, 2007

Filed under: Miscellaneous — Matt @ 3:09 am

Meta Titan traffic spike yesterday, I found this amusing:

Digg Effect

The fort held up, but it really puts it into perspective for those who are on penny and dime hosting plans.

What hosting plan are you using?

Comment by Daniel Errante — October 24, 2007 @ 10:10 am
MetaTitan.com is on one of my dedicated servers with HostGator, but I run a number of different projects on this box as well.

Comment by Matt — October 24, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
That’s nice, now if I can just get my affiliate spam site on DIGG I don’t care if my server catches fire.

Comment by Mike — November 2, 2007 @ 12:27 am
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