Bloggers and commercial sites love it when a story or news article winds up on the front page of Digg. But for them, their future success may become bittersweet as their Web servers may be overloaded from users flooding in from the voter driven content site.
For those of you who never visited, Digg is a website where users vote on stories, videos, articles, and other nuggets of Internet goodness. When an article picks up enough votes, it lands on the front page. Of course, this means millions of Digg users see those front page stories and will naturally want to rush to see what the article is about. Problem is, as the rate of Digg users grows, can websites whose articles land on Digg’s front page handle the ever increasing amount of Digg user traffic? One company is saying that Digg’s success may actually become harmful to modest websites.
Network monitoring site Pingdom is predicting that the rate of growth of Digg users will eventually choke out most hosted and single Web server setups. This is because most non load sharing servers are not built to handle a possible rush of users if an article they host lands on Digg’s front page. Pingdom is warning that if the current Digg model does not change, only higher-end, multi-server hosting sites will be able to handle the Digg user traffic, and Digg content would become hampered to say the least.
Of course, we here at Geek.com say, bring it on.
Read more at Pingdom.
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