Gawker Media’s Nick Denton writes about the problems that a lot of popular sites have had today due to the huge amount of web traffic trying to visit them - and how some hosts have done really well to adjust accordingly. Denton reports that Gawker Media’s host, The Planet, has “been extremely unresponsive” to their requests.
“We’re moving as soon as we have an alternative. I advise any high-traffic site to avoid The Planet.”
That’s pretty definitive, I’d say.
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1 David // Nov 2, 2004 at 11:11 pm
I wonder what their problems actually were. The Planet is a data center with support, not really the same type of “host” most get for their small websites.
If his traffic page is accurate, I’d say he should have zero problems with a server being stable.
I’d make assumptions about proper setup, etc., but who knows without actually knowing what went wrong.