![]() ![]() First thing: let’s check how’s the server doing. I went to bed at around 1:30 and woke up normally at 6:00 AM. After a few dozens of minutes which felt like days, I finally tweaked the plugin and my server, although puffing and steaming, was serving pages again. Meanwhile, the traffic was steadily growing. I activated wp-super-cache only to remain completely baffled at its options page. I googled immediately for a cache plugin, found wp-super-cache and installed it. Then again an increase in the processor load. In minutes I was back again, with all the setup running smoothly. “Ok, it’s your server, sir, button pushed”. Of course, my phone was closer than my good judgement so I immediately called my hosting company and asked for a reboot. 50%!!! I tried to do a restart to the database server, but it took like forever. I ssh-ed immediately and saw a horrendous 50% load on my server. What database? Who? Where am I? Then I realized something is terribly wrong. For a few seconds I didn’t know what to do. ![]() I reloaded the most visited page on the blog and argghhhhh, the infamous message: “Errors establishing database connection” literally stabbed in my eyes. At its best, the spike was about 350 concurrent visitors. It was a nice spike, now let’s get back to work. ![]() Well, that’s it, I said to myself, what goes up must go down. And after a while I saw the visitors number starting to decrease (by watching the badge on my Woopra icon on the dock). In a few minutes I started to focus on other tasks. While I was happily enjoying the traffic and watching for new comments, I briefly fired up Woopra to monitor things a little bit closer. I host my blog on a dedicated server and I have total control over it (sometimes, this is bad and you’ll see why shortly). It wasn’t, but at that time I had no idea. To make a long story short, after a few hours from the mention on lifehacker, my server was receiving a steady and healthy flow of 300 concurrent users. If you get a link from a site like this, expect some serious traffic. According to quantcast, it glues together more than 250k unique visitors each day. Lifehacker is one of the most visited places on the Internet today. I assume that among my readers are people living outside the Solar system and I’ll just make a short description of what Lifehacker is, just for them (the rest of you already know everything about it, I’m sure). To my surprise, the article got featured again on. Here we are, with the second article from that series, now about How To Defrag Your Mind In 5 Easy Steps. One of my commenters actually asked me to write a sequel and I’m always happy when I receive suggestions from my readers. More precisely, I started to detail on some of the main points in the initial article. The reaction from the commenters was so nice, that I decided to go on and write a sequel. The post was immediately featured on, to my surprise (and delight, to be honest). I published an article about how you can run the best version of yourself, based on a sketchy parallel between human beings and computers. Let me tell you a story about how success can become your worst nightmare. And you know why? Because it’s going to be completely different from what you think it would. La Dépêche du Midi : actualités et info en direct de la région Occitanie et des environs - ladepeche.So, you want to hit it big with your blog? Go on, do it! Just don’t fantasize too much about how it’s going to be when you’ll do it. Le - Actualités et Infos en France et dans le monde ZEIT ONLINE - Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Debatten Latest News and News Headlines - Herald Sunįolha de S.Paulo - Em cima da hora - Principal Latest News and News Headlines - Daily Telegraph Local News and recommended categories are some of the ways we are planning to handle it. Using Plenary, we are trying to solve discovability of RSS feeds for first time users. ![]() Repository contains ~500 feeds in recommended section and more than 250 news sources across countries. A curated list of RSS feeds (with OPML files) used in Recommended Feeds and local news sections of our android app Plenary to populate feeds. ![]()
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