Web servers at several large shared hosting companies are getting a workout this week as huge waves of news-driven search traffic crash customer sites.
Admins at DreamHost awoke this morning to find a shared server besieged by traffic, and quickly narrowed it down to NastiaLiukin.com, the official web site for the U.S. gymnast who won a gold medal in the women’s all-around finals last night at the Beijing Olympics. Josh Jones at DreamHost describes the effort to get Nastia’s site back online:
At her website manager’s request, we moved her temporarily to a different shared server with nobody else on it. It also kept crashing! So, we switched her (static html) site from Apache to lighttpd and immediately the load dropped from 200 to .2 … but then the network port started to saturate! To…
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