Having too much traffic _IS_ a big problem. If your site isnt built to scale or your hosting cannot provide you with adequte resource to grow, then your users suffers until they leave and almost never return. In your case, this might be different since, your userbase is loyal, wordpress can scale and im sure that with the recent switching of hosting, your servers will show improved performance. Anyway good luck.
Jon
· 2 years ago
just curious, what hosting did you move from and who did you move to?
Jack
· 2 years ago
Okay, mister Smart Guy.
Chris
· 2 years ago
I had some problems, I thought it was my computer connections, but other sites worked. Glad you guys are back, you guys should put a small note so others don't get frustrated. Cheers.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Chris,
I didn't expect any downtime. Hence no warning.
Jason
· 2 years ago
Jon, I was equally curious. A bit tracing shows they are using mediatemple? Assuming they chose extreme dedicate server plan, the hosting cost is about $1500 per year.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
We've always used (mt).
Jason
· 2 years ago
Pete,
(mt) looks like a good choice. If it's O.K., could you tell us which hosting plans you upgraded from/to?
fran
· 2 years ago
According to alexa, mashable is going DOWN DOWN DOWN! So yaaa, people are catching on to this BS blog
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
So are all US-focused sites. It's due to an increasing number of Chinese and Indian users downloading the toolbar, which gives the impression that US-centric sites are losing steam...
Yeah, but even that is misleading. It shows a recent traffic jump, whereas traffic has been growing steadily for months.
paulOr
· 2 years ago
i blaim Digg, there has been alot of mashable on digg recently :)
Mark Harburn
· 2 years ago
Fran,
Alexa's about as accurate as guessing the amount of millions in a tub.
It could simply more people with the alexa toolbar are using larger sites. Mashables ranking on alexa is very high for the type of blog it is. I have an SN site with over 100k regular users and 262k members and we don't touch mashable's alexa ranking...
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
That's because Alexa overestimates tech sites and under measures non-tech sites. Rule of thumb: the more technical your users, the more likely you are to rank well on Alexa.
Alessandra Beckmann
· 2 years ago
I was having Mashable withdrawals! Good to see you up and running again. And Pete, congrats on your awesome growth!
Maybe if you didn't just abuse pagination so badly, you'd serve a third less pages and your server wouldn't puke.
I'm moving to the feed so i don't have to wait for 4 extra pages to load.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
I always love how others know how to run your blog better than you. ;)
Yes, pagination is a suck, but remember that most people viewing blogs go direct to the blog posts, and hence most pages being served do not include pagination. I pulled it out this week, but it really made very little difference. Other additions also strain the db and were removed, but mainly it's just too many posts being viewed. I may decide to remove those features at peak times, but I'd rather just have a setup that lets us add stuff without worrying about server issues.
bann
· 2 years ago
Thanks for putting more posts on each page. I know you'll serve more pages and have more ad impressions the other way, but this really is a better user experience.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
bann,
The only reason we ever put less posts per page is if the server is struggling. I prefer it with more too, because it saves people flipping back through lots of pages just to read the news from today (and those people include me!).
bann
· 2 years ago
"The only reason we ever put less posts per page is if the server is struggling."
I think you've just made the best case for pagination. Thanks again for upping the count. I suppose I'm a bit sensitive about it because I visit the main page about 4 times a day. :D
Will
· 2 years ago
Never had any lag or down time here. Been fast as its always been, loads in less than 1 second. :)
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
You were lucky. ;)
Will
· 2 years ago
But what is annoying, is that I have to uncheck "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail" every single time. And some times it still subscribes me anyways. :(
And why is there "subscribe to comments via email" too on every post? At least its not checked by default.
Please make "notify me of followup comments via email" not checked by default... Some posts I do want to subscribe to so thats why I dont use the block all button on the subscription page. So for all the reset I have to uncheck it every time. Getting really really old....
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Will,
Yeah, that feature is being screwy and I haven't had time to look into it yet. I also think the check box is displaying twice, correct?
I guess whether you respond or not depends whether you're subbed to this thread. Ironic. ;)
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In your case, this might be different since, your userbase is loyal, wordpress can scale and im sure that with the recent switching of hosting, your servers will show improved performance.
Anyway good luck.
I didn't expect any downtime. Hence no warning.
I was equally curious. A bit tracing shows they are using mediatemple? Assuming they chose extreme dedicate server plan, the hosting cost is about $1500 per year.
(mt) looks like a good choice. If it's O.K., could you tell us which hosting plans you upgraded from/to?
http://valleywag.com/tech/bubble/alexa-error-tr...
Traffic is growing week on week.
Cheers
Alexa's about as accurate as guessing the amount of millions in a tub.
It could simply more people with the alexa toolbar are using larger sites. Mashables ranking on alexa is very high for the type of blog it is. I have an SN site with over 100k regular users and 262k members and we don't touch mashable's alexa ranking...
42,493 links. Must be doing something right.
I'm moving to the feed so i don't have to wait for 4 extra pages to load.
Yes, pagination is a suck, but remember that most people viewing blogs go direct to the blog posts, and hence most pages being served do not include pagination. I pulled it out this week, but it really made very little difference. Other additions also strain the db and were removed, but mainly it's just too many posts being viewed. I may decide to remove those features at peak times, but I'd rather just have a setup that lets us add stuff without worrying about server issues.
The only reason we ever put less posts per page is if the server is struggling. I prefer it with more too, because it saves people flipping back through lots of pages just to read the news from today (and those people include me!).
I think you've just made the best case for pagination. Thanks again for upping the count. I suppose I'm a bit sensitive about it because I visit the main page about 4 times a day. :D
And why is there "subscribe to comments via email" too on every post? At least its not checked by default.
Please make "notify me of followup comments via email" not checked by default... Some posts I do want to subscribe to so thats why I dont use the block all button on the subscription page. So for all the reset I have to uncheck it every time. Getting really really old....
Yeah, that feature is being screwy and I haven't had time to look into it yet. I also think the check box is displaying twice, correct?
I guess whether you respond or not depends whether you're subbed to this thread. Ironic. ;)