To Do List Advice

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Post by sscheper » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 3:48 PM UTC

To Do List Advice
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Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by blatherard » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

TODO: Upgrade hosting account.

Re: To Do List Advice

#3

Post by piinbinary » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

The secret that everybody ought to know is that "It seems your account is currently using too much CPU / Memory time"? :-)

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Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 5:37 PM UTC

blatherard wrote: post #2

TODO: Upgrade hosting account.

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Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by sscheper » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 5:39 PM UTC

@blatherard LOL. Do you guys have any recommendations on a hosting account? Sorry for the inconvenience...

I pay about $20 a month for Hostican, but still seem to be having problems when my stories get on Hacker News or Digg...

Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by acangiano » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 5:40 PM UTC

A similar concept is presented in the time management section of The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes. He suggests minimizing reactive tasks and confining them to pre-allocated slots of time, rather than letting them interrupt you throughout the day. It's an obvious suggestion, but few people adopt it in their daily life.

Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by hxr » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 5:57 PM UTC

blatherard wrote: post #2

TODO: Upgrade hosting account.

Time to invent a new term for 'slashdotted' applied to HN. (Especially since HN seems to drive a lot of referral traffic). Any good suggestions anyone?

Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by mahmud » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 6:04 PM UTC

sscheper wrote: post #5

@blatherard LOL. Do you guys have any recommendations on a hosting account? Sorry for the inconvenience... I pay about $20 a month for Hostican, but still seem to be having problems when my stories get on Hacker News or Digg...

for $20 you can get a whole VPS at linode and host it yourself with a classic LAMP stack.

Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by parbo » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 6:05 PM UTC

hxr wrote: post #7

blatherard wrote: post #2

TODO: Upgrade hosting account.

Time to invent a new term for 'slashdotted' applied to HN. (Especially since HN seems to drive a lot of referral traffic). Any good suggestions anyone?

Hackered?

Re: To Do List Advice

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Post by weaksauce » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 6:05 PM UTC

sscheper wrote: post #5

@blatherard LOL. Do you guys have any recommendations on a hosting account? Sorry for the inconvenience... I pay about $20 a month for Hostican, but still seem to be having problems when my stories get on Hacker News or Digg...

You can just hit reply below his post to nest the comments. No need to twitter style shout outs.

What kind of hosting do you have now? Is it a VPS or plain hosted webhosting? If it is a vps I would say to go with linode for the money it looks like they overprovision there plans at hostican but I am just guessing. the front page of digg will send a lot of traffic so even then you should be employing caching of dynamic pages, offloading large media to CDN's or amazon S3, or offering a static page stripped down when you are on the front page depending on how much traffic. If you are experiencing massive traffic in bursts you can do the amazon dynamic provisioning of servers to meet the spikes in traffic.