This topic sounds very contradicting? This is what I start to see blogs starting to declare the new Internet problem called “Digg Spam”! I believe this is what the server masters would hope to tell the world about… Well, many blogs loved to be digg because when the digg community found them.. They simply flood your site with lots of traffic… Aren’t we all happy about being digg? Well, I think you are going to be unhappy about it because you will start to face server down problem… I am talking about many of us who used shared hosting plan with the aim of broadcasting to the world about our thoughts and articles with the most affordable price. And if that hosting company is well-versed with handling server load, they will stop your service temporarily without your knowledge! This is to continue the traffic for other sites using the same server!
We all love traffic, aren’t we? But just imagine this:
- Your traffic is over-exceeding your total connections allowed in your shared hosting plan… And your website is cut for usage temporarily from you and many other potential users.
- That traffic is a pure content-vampire! They suck every content that you have and when you are left with nothing in terms of contents or your shared hosting is unable to produce contents, they go…
- Your supporters are digging basically every post that you made… Creating overwhelming traffic to your site again and again so much so that you have to start your own server (Happy right? But when you keep on adding new servers, see if you are happy or not?)
More traffic means starting more servers on the backend to fulfill the server load balancing for your website. Just imagine having one very hot website which needs you to
- keep on adding more servers at the back…
- while your income from your advertisements are still quite fixed…
- and your expenses keep on shooting up…
Well, I guess the solution should be like this:
- I hope the shared hosting companies are looking into shared-server balancing whereby they can allow our traffic to keep on serving to the traffic when the traffic is extremely high, instead of declaring connection breakdown…
- Probably it might not work for sudden high traffic, I think if you have an extreme high traffic in your site, it might be a good thing to sell some products as well because you might not be able to determine your business expenses for your income…
Anyway, being digg is always a good problem! I think it is always better to handle good problems rather than bad problems, am I right? 
