June 4th, 2008
Facestat scales fast for Yahoo traffic
Lukas Biewald has an awesome post up on his rather adventurous weekend. He woke up Sunday morning to find his site, Facestat, on the front page of Yahoo picked up from an earlier link in the Wall Street Journal.
I’ve been hit by Digg and Slashdot before, but this spike in traffic was like nothing I’d ever seen.
He goes on to explain how the Facestat team handled the situation and the frantic day spent readying more servers. We spoke with them Sunday evening as they were working. Our hats are off to them, excellent job handling a huge traffic wave and lots of pressure.
Slicehost has scaled up as fast as we’ve needed them to.
June 4th, 2008 at 09:01 PM xdmx
Congrats guys… i hope to be like you one day… for now every sites doesn’t publish nothing about our domains :(
June 4th, 2008 at 10:15 PM Justin
Great site! They really got pop fast! Great idea with nice clean execution. Don’t worry xdmx you’ll get there.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:13 PM Dmitry
Well done to them for getting some high level exposure so quickly. It’s nice to see how well Slicehost handled this as well—hopefully I’ll be getting a bit of traffic one day as well ;)