Hi,
recently some of our client's sites were stormed by digg effect. I just struck with this idea - pls provide me directions that I can proceed on to getting a Digg resistant Pligg installations (to an extent - bandwidth outages cannot be solved - pls not in that direction
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The plan is this:
From Admin panel: Select a story that you see advancing to front page - generate HTML page (static content) of it, generate htaccess code to redirect the requested page to this new static page. The admin will then copy that static content and paste it into the htaccess - done.
Reason:
- Many sites (esp ones on shared hosts) die due to inadequate CPU share and memory
- most diggers will just come to see the content and they donot interact with the site anymore after initial viewing (if you have other links -they will just take that path) - all they know is to follow links.
Disadvantages:
- the comments will temporarily be disabled but can be allowed if user logged in - no redirection (dunno how difficult that will be)
- does not save bandwidth.
please suggest me some ideas or points to get started I will get a module on it sooner.
Regards.