We upgraded WikiMatrix to our much improved newer version of the matrix software and launched the new screen design on monday.

This was digged on monday afternoon and a day later the news made it to the frontpage. We had about 11,000 visitors and nearly 400,000 page impressions yesterday and though we are no longer on the frontpage, there are still coming a lot of people from digg.

So, how did we survive the digg effect? Not too bad I think. Well at least the server didn't die , but of course the site was really, really slow. The main bottleneck was the network connection. WikiMatrix is currently self hosted on a 2 MBit line which is okay usually, but not enough for the digg masses of course. On the other hand I assume that the narrow line protected the server from hitting other limits.

When the Matrix sites get even more popular we should really think about a rented dedicated server… The traffic was capped by our leased line MySQL's query cache took much of the additional load on the database The server had a lot of load, but survived Nearly ten times the traffic of a normal day on November the 7th.