This is actually a brilliant counter-example of what not to do. :D
I can think of many services that have rapidly outgrown their ability to serve pages to the users in a seamless fashion (people regularly complain about reddit, though I don't recall encountering it myself (but then I'm only on reddit rarely), and people complain about twitter (were they the guys with the fail whale?)). And various blogging software also spits its lunch (wordpress?)
Then you have MySQL which regularly died under load. I think it's better now than it used to be.
I guess the counter-counter example is that even if your technology foundations are crappy you can still become popular if the service is compelling enough to override minor quibbles like 'stability' and 'scalability' (don't tell the architects I said that :D )
My blog keeps falling over under load. It's not even particularly high load, front page of HN and a retweet by @timoreilly. But this is the second time this has happened. I already have my hand in managing services that have to withstand load, I don't need my blog to be one of them.
That sounds like a pretty awful blog engine... Are you using uncached wordpress or something? If so, just install a caching plugin and it will work fine.
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This is actually a brilliant counter-example of what not to do. :D
I can think of many services that have rapidly outgrown their ability to serve pages to the users in a seamless fashion (people regularly complain about reddit, though I don't recall encountering it myself (but then I'm only on reddit rarely), and people complain about twitter (were they the guys with the fail whale?)). And various blogging software also spits its lunch (wordpress?)
Then you have MySQL which regularly died under load. I think it's better now than it used to be.
I guess the counter-counter example is that even if your technology foundations are crappy you can still become popular if the service is compelling enough to override minor quibbles like 'stability' and 'scalability' (don't tell the architects I said that :D )
Sorry. I think the days of self-hosting my blog are over.
What's wrong with self-hosting?
My blog keeps falling over under load. It's not even particularly high load, front page of HN and a retweet by @timoreilly. But this is the second time this has happened. I already have my hand in managing services that have to withstand load, I don't need my blog to be one of them.
That sounds like a pretty awful blog engine... Are you using uncached wordpress or something? If so, just install a caching plugin and it will work fine.
Hm, got lucky after waiting a few minutes.