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Moving Hosts: Stress Test

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So I’ve officially switched my hosting plan from Dreamhost to Media Temple. I wrote in my personal blog about how I was considering getting the “Grid Server” plan.

Basically, the gs is supposed to protect your site from things like the digg effect. They say:

The Grid’s on-demand scalability means you’ll always be ready for intense bursts of traffic and the growing audience resulting from your online success.

Now, the only way to actually test this claim is to get dugg. So let’s see if Media Temple isn’t full of hot air and stress test this baby! Digg the story here.


Here’s what the blog is running on:

WordPress – 2.0.5
PHP – 5.1.6
MySQL – 4.1.1

For the purposes of this test, WP-Cache is off.

So if this site does get dugg, and people have to resort to using the digg mirror, I guess the grid’s not all that it’s cracked up to be.

EDIT: So this finally hit the digg front page. Let’s see if the server can stay up. I think the diggers are up for the challenge…

Also, I don’t think I’ll be making any money on ads by doing this, since Digg users are usually not the type to click on ads. But hey, while I have your attention, check out Notecentric: For sharing class notes. It’s also on the same server and running on the 64mb rails container. Somehow I don’t think that could handle the load (I’d probably need to upgrade to at least 512MB of dedicated memory). But we’ll see!

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EDIT 11:16PM: So the traffic has gone down considerably since the page hit the front page of digg. It’s on the second page now. The server seemed to do fine, besides the occasional database error here and there. Most people wrote saying that if they refreshed, it would work. Thanks to everyone who helped to “test” the server. You did a really good job of keeping track of how many diggs/how slow the server was at any given time.

So some people also think this is just a big commercial for Media Temple. That wasn’t my intention, but if you think that mt is a good host, then all the better. You can totally sign up using the referral link and it would help me pay for my own hosting. I suppose I could have mentioned it upfront, but I don’t think that would have kept people from complaining about it anyway.

Someone asked if I used all of my “GPUs.” I’m not even sure that Media Temple is showing its customers how many they use yet. At least, I haven’t found any way to check. I’m sure they’ll approve of my experiment once I explain it to them. I hope.

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Anime First Impressions

Pumpkin Scissors – Anime First Impressions

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Pumpkin Scissors brings two of my favorite things together. 1: Pumpkins. 2: Scissors. Actually, this combination is about as bad as Nuts & Gum. But how does the anime fare?

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Anime DVD Review

Basilisk Vol. 1: Scrolls of Blood – Anime Review

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Since there aren’t really any ninja anime this Fall season, I was totally psyched when I got the first few volumes of Basilisk in the mail. I had seen a couple of episodes of this anime on fansub, but I stopped when it got licensed (no, really!).

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Anime DVD Review

Trinity Blood Volume 1 – Anime DVD Review

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Trinity Blood is one of those anime that I never really payed much attention to when it came out. Whenever I hear “Trinity Blood,” I think of that Melty Blood game. Funimation sent me a review package of DVDs, and one of them was the Trinity Blood Volume 1 collector’s box. Awesome! Here’s my review:

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Anime Blogging

Submit Your Anime Blog to 9rules Today!

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9rules is a blogging community that I was fortunate enough to have been accepted into this past Summer. Today is the latest 9rules submission date. That’s right, 9rules only takes submissions every now and then for 24 hour windows at a time.

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Manga Review

Kamui Vol. 2 – Manga Review

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I got word from Broccoli Books that Kamui volume 5 is on its way, so I figured I should try and eliminate my manga backlog in preparation. I reviewed the first volume of Kamui about a month ago. Hopefully it won’t take me a month for volume 3!

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Anime First Impressions

Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na – Anime First Impressions

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So this review is kinda late. I was hoping I’d be able to get through all of the season’s anime and do a writeup for each one, but school is rough! Anyway, Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na is that “Crescent Love” anime that has the moon girl in it. Yay, another h-game harem conversion!

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Anime First Impressions

Bartender – Anime First Impressions

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I imagined the bartender anime as being the anime version of Cheers. And we all know how long Cheers lasted! But can an anime about bartending really be worth watching?

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Anime First Impressions

Negima!? – Anime First Impressions

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While fans of Kanon have had to wait more than four years for a remake, Mahou Sensei Negima gets one after less than two years! I actually liked the first series of Negima, so I didn’t see why they needed to remake this anime so soon.

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Anime Manga

The Taiyacholy of Tsukimiya Ayu

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These Tsuruya 4koma have certainly gotten pretty popular, haven’t they? Here’s a Kanon themed one that I found on Danbooru. Translated into English for your enjoyment!

In other news, Kanon is now up to 85 (make that 86) entries in the last two weeks!