Today, we jump off our chairs when we realized what had just happened. One of the major platform that we are developping, Gigasize, was dugg today... and I can assure you it was totally uncalled. We were in alpha phase, testing out functionalities, improving usability, etc., and then BOOM... thousands and thousands of visitors, peaking at around 6-7k / hour at some point. Servers got a very tough ride, we got some downtime, and we got several feedback on the comments section of the Digg post. The great thing about this is we got a stress test for free; we were about to do it and then, uncalled, tons of hits! I think this was a tough first test but a great one considering it showed up quickly the 3-4 majors points we had to work on to get the site running smoothly. I got the chance to get an interview with Ammar Khan, director of GigaSize, to have its comments on the events:
"Our goal is to provide the best file sharing platform, be the UPS of file sharing. We didn't think that our early alpha version would get catched up that early into digg and that it would be the 2nd most dugg post of the day today (2088 diggs so far)! We thank you for all the feedbacks, even tough ones, that you gave through the digg comments sections; we really want to offer the best experience. You can give us your feedback here."
Well, lessons learn here: don't do hype, hype will come you! Stay tuned!
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