Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website
by MichaelApproved on Thursday July 04, 2013 @11:47AM
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I'd like to hear how they were able to handle the dramatic increase in traffic over such a short period of time.
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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website
by olaj on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:23AM
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It was actually pretty easy to deal with. Since we usually have around 50-70K visitors/day we are used to a lot of traffic.
Our setup is one Windows Server 2008 R2 with 12gb RAM and Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27Ghz with 8 cores. The page is built with ASP.NET MVC + Web Forms (The alternative page is Web forms).
Anyway, ASP.NET scale really really well and since only a small % actually login to the site we can just cache more or less everything. Usually when sites go down because of massive traffic increases i think there is some kind of bug somewhere or they are just being blocked by their hosting provider.
/Ola (From AlternativeTo)
Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website
by bnchrch on Friday July 05, 2013 @01:19AM
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With out getting to specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must of prepared for Google Reader deadline
Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website
by christiangenco on Friday July 05, 2013 @02:13AM
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> Without getting too specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must have prepared for Google Reader's deadline
Assuming ESL; legitimately trying to be helpful :)