Saturday was an eventful day for One Man’s Server… It had the unenviable task of keeping up with a record day of visitors!

In one 24 hour period over 115,000 people visited the site. The vast majority as a result of reaching the “Most Popular in 24 hours” page on Digg for people visiting the 13 Billboards post (over 2,500 Diggs so far). I’d like to pass along a special thanks to SuxMonkey for kick-starting that Digg effort. I would also like to send out a special thanks to Roy Kaldung for optimizing the heck out of the server so it can keep up with all of the demand.

I’ve also attached the MyBlogLog stats page for Saturday showing a detail of some of the top incoming and outgoing traffic (Just select the thumbnail for the full sized view). Keep in mind that these stats are not entirely accurate, but are within about 20% accuracy. The true visitor count was likely between 135,000-150,000 visitors.

So, I would just like to take a moment to once again thank all of my regular readers. I find all of this to be very exciting, and of course it wouldn’t have been possible without you!

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the site has been partially migrated to the new server. That is to say that the database is now running on the new big daddy machine, although the Web server is still on the old machine. (If you’re a new subscriber you can select the “Digg” related tag below to see the history.)

For those of you who may have been refraining from Digging articles in order to help me keep the server running – Thanks! And it should no longer be necessary! The new configuration should handle a traffic spike from Digg now (fingers crossed), and it’ll be even better in a day or two when everything gets entirely moved to the new machine.

So, at this point nothing would please me more than to see all the articles getting Dugg again. :-)

John

PS – Thanks for everyone’s patience as the site goes through the growing pains!

As I’ve said a few other times now… welcome visitors and new subscribers! Please note that the servers performance is quite erratic at the moment due to the fact that there have already been over 45,000 visitors in the last 8 hours.

This is the third time One Man’s Blog has hit the home page of Digg in the last month (everyone can thank Jimbeau for kicking it off this time. :-) As I write this the How I’d Hack Your Passwords post has been Dugg nearly 1,700 times and is occupying the number 1 position on the Digg Technology page. Thanks to everyone that helped popularize this article!

For those of you that are new, please know that I’ve already purchased a massive new server to move the blog to… I’ve just not completed the migration yet because of a technical problem.

I promise to ratchet the urgency up a notch on getting moved to the new server, so please feel free to keep Digging, bookmarking and spreading the word in general and I’ll keep throwing more and more hardware at the site to handle however much load we can generate.

Thanks for everyone’s patience yet again!