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Websites Crash When I Link To Them - How To Solve?

by JamesPenn
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Hi Warriors,

I have grown a very popular Facebook page which shares the best blog posts in my market. My page has grown to over 200,000 fans now but has encountered a problem.

Nowadays the page sends so much traffic that if I link to a blogger in a Facebook post, their website often crashes within a few minutes from the weight of traffic.

It can then go down for a few minutes or a few hours and I have to deal with the backlash on the Facebook page.

Can you suggest any solutions to this problem? Asking hundreds of bloggers in my market to upgrade their web hosting is not really an option.

Is there a way to stagger the traffic so it is not delivered in such a small space of time?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
James
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  • Profile picture of the author joaquin112
    Sounds like the Digg effect. There's really no way around it except creating a mirror yourself (which might be illegal), asking them to upgrade their host account (which you say is not possible) and maybe redirecting some users to one page and others to another page in order to reduce the visitors to each individual page.
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  • Profile picture of the author freotech
    Nowadays the page sends so much traffic that if I link to a blogger in a Facebook post, their website often crashes within a few minutes from the weight of traffic.
    Can you link to my site wsoapp.com and i see if it crash?

    LOL

    Is there a way to stagger the traffic so it is not delivered in such a small space of time?
    I am not a techi but i dont think this is quite possible. The reason the blogger sites are crashing is that for eg 2000 people clicking on your link within 10 seconds of your post. Their server just cannot cope with such a surge. But then there is nothing you can do from your end - i mean how do you stop people from clicking on your link ? There cant be a way to drip feed that traffic - imagine someone click on your link now and has to wait 1 hour before getting to the blog. I guess that is just not practical.

    Asking hundreds of bloggers in my market to upgrade their web hosting is not really an option.
    It might be the only option
    There is "a price" for them to pay for all those free traffic !

    You could put a warning on your FB page saying that " If mention your blog on my fan page , your website may crash if you do not have a reliable server ! "
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    You are in a tough spot.

    If I were in your shoes, I might inform my readers that some of these sites crash under the volume of traffic received from your post, and to ask them to extend some patience to the small publishers that you are highlighting.

    If you give the blogger a head's up and check with them as to the size of their hosting package, you might be able to convince those bloggers to upgrade before the traffic crush. Otherwise, you will know their ability to handle the load, and you can communicate that info to your readers.
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  • Profile picture of the author freotech
    Actually i have thought of a way of "Drip feeding the traffic".

    I understand that you are from UK but then the majority of your fans would probably be from US ?

    You just need NOT to post in peak US hours and perhaps less busy UK time . Lets say you post 4am US time, then in the morning, as they wake up theUS readers will more gradually start clicking on your links .

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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by freotech View Post

      Actually i have thought of a way of "Drip feeding the traffic".

      I understand that you are from UK but then the majority of your fans would probably be from US ?

      You just need NOT to post in peak US hours and perhaps less busy UK time . Lets say you post 4am US time, then in the morning, as they wake up theUS readers will more gradually start clicking on your links .


      I suspect the bigger issue is that the webmasters only have a certain amount of bandwidth available to them each month, and his readers are using up all of that bandwidth in a day.

      Drip-feeding the link would be beneficial, but FaceBook doesn't offer that capability.
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      • Profile picture of the author m00d
        What countries does your traffic come from? I use Maxmind's GeoIP database to filter my traffic on all my free hosting servers. If you have a lot of China, Russia, other non-English speaking traffic you could link to a filter page and only send quality traffic to the bloggers site by filtering out the junk traffic. If your traffic is like mine I'm sure a significant percentage could be cut out this way.
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        • Profile picture of the author JamesPenn
          Originally Posted by m00d View Post

          What countries does your traffic come from? I use Maxmind's GeoIP database to filter my traffic on all my free hosting servers. If you have a lot of China, Russia, other non-English speaking traffic you could link to a filter page and only send quality traffic to the bloggers site by filtering out the junk traffic. If your traffic is like mine I'm sure a significant percentage could be cut out this way.
          It's pretty much all US, Canada, UK and Australia traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesPenn
      Originally Posted by freotech View Post

      Actually i have thought of a way of "Drip feeding the traffic".

      I understand that you are from UK but then the majority of your fans would probably be from US ?

      You just need NOT to post in peak US hours and perhaps less busy UK time . Lets say you post 4am US time, then in the morning, as they wake up theUS readers will more gradually start clicking on your links .

      It's an idea - but I post 6-8 times per day and want as much interaction on my posts as possible to grow my page so posting at peak times is more profitable for me.
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      • Profile picture of the author abdulr
        Originally Posted by JamesPenn View Post

        It's an idea - but I post 6-8 times per day and want as much interaction on my posts as possible to grow my page so posting at peak times is more profitable for me.
        Get in touch with the owners of the smaller websites you link to and ask them to install the w3 total cache plugin. I'm guessing most are already running wordpress.
        Explain to them that this not only improves page load times overall, but helps to reduce the load on the server.

        The total cache plugin helps to a point but in the end upgrading their hosting is the only way if they find the website still crashes with the plugin installed.

        BTW fan of your facebook page. Good job.
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