image host that can survive digg effect

[Ruriko]

Anyone know a free image host that can survive the digg effect? I was thinking of imageshack but I dunno if they can take the digg effect

[fnixws]

Whats all this crap about surviving the digg effect...

For a start, the digg effect is overrated. Youve got about a 0.00001% chance of having to "survive the digg effect"

And why does everyone assume their site (in your case images) will ever be "dug" :/

[Stan]

The digg effect can pretty much act like a DDOS attack. Just think of how many people use digg, lets say a user finds something everyone finds interesting and he/she diggs it. Now EVERYONE wants to see this website, hundreds and thousands of people connecting to the server at the same time. Obviously the server can not handle all these requests, resulting in the server crawling to halt, now no sites on that server can be accessed because it is too busy trying to see to the needs if the digg traffic. This can even result in hardware failure.

Like i said, its rather like getting ddos. To handle the digg effect would say you need at least a 100mbps connection and a very powerful server. Plenty of bandwidth is a must too.

Yes, for most people the digg effect is over rated, just wait til it happens to you or someone on your server.

[fnixws]

Yes, for most people the digg effect is over rated, just wait til it happens to you or someone on your server.

Wich is very unlikely.

Everyone just assumes their site will be popular when in relaity less than 0.001% of sites get a mentioned on digg, let alone get "dug" so much to cause that kind of effect.

[Stan]

yes, but how can you say that about this person? Do you know exactly what he is wanting to host? Do you know whether he has had problems with this in the past? No? Didn't think so.

Just because you have not got a site with good enough content to get 'dug', does not mean nobody else can. Its actually quite easy to get people to dig your content. It just needs to be worth digging.

[fnixws]

Im not talking about this person. Just in general, im just sick of seeing this "must be abel to handel the digg effect" BS.

If its effect is so huge, then really can anyone handel it?
Anyways as i said, the chances are so ridiculously small, i dont know why people bother asking...

[Cael]

Anyone know a free image host that can survive the digg effect? I was thinking of imageshack but I dunno if they can take the digg effect

Quite sure imageshack can handle it, since they are like the biggest out there. However, they have a transfer limit on each picture uploaded. Most likely it will get deleted before digg crashes their servers.

[JohnN]

Your best bet is flickr! Yet to see it fail.

[Dynash]

Your best bet is flickr! Yet to see it fail.

reading their blog as of last year, they seem to have alot of unexspected downtimes, for a site of their size.

[skyhook]

i'm willing to take the risk lol.

[dreads]

unlikely?
Just go to DP and you can pick up a "Digg" attack aka 100 Votes for like $50?
So its not really unlikely...

[fnixws]

lol.. thats quiet lame :(

[PoliticalMonster]

The digg effect is overrated, it's about 8000 hits per hour, for a frontpage, so it's not that bad in reality. A good connection and mid-range server (shared) can handle the odd digg from time to time with no problems.

[themoose]

tinypic.com pictures are rarely deleted.

imageshack are always deleted.. like if 500 people load the image they delete it. One of the worst image hosts, I don't see why it's so big.

[MichaelMelen]

imageshack should be more than fine to live up to a "digg attack".

[themoose]

It's not, plenty of times I've been on digg and seen deleted images from imageshack.

[GTFO]

The digg effect is more than Valid, its a reality. Having experienced packet floods and DDoS attacks, its effect is very similar.

[Schmarvin]

tinypic.com pictures are rarely deleted.

imageshack are always deleted.. like if 500 people load the image they delete it. One of the worst image hosts, I don't see why it's so big.

Oh? I can still view a few images that I am able to view for over a year now.

[creativeVPS-Dan]

I've seen plenty of images that have exceeded the bandwidth limit for imageshack, its quite annoying.. And no one said anything about them deleting images based on age, so your image being there for years is perfectly acceptable I would think?