Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Web 2.0 scalability: Digg, del.icio.us traffic overexert site

Yesterday I blogged about the increasing concerns for scalability in a Web 2.0 world, with not only your own traffic taxing your web server(s) , database(s) and bandwidth, but also that from external resources like RSS feeds, application remixes and web service calls. I just now discovered an article off Digg that apparently contained 12 neat CSS tricks, and intrigued, followed the link in the feed. This is what I got, an unfortunate incident proving the need for scalable architecture and caching:

CSS Beauty will return soon

our server was killed by digg.com and del.icio.us/popular/, we are currently looking to switch to a better host

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