I'm actually paying for WordPress services, but I don't know if that makes a difference.
Can a WordPress blog survive the onslaught of being linked to from a popular site like CNN or Slashdot?
This is not a hypothetical question.
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Can WordPress survive the Slashdot effect?
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http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/september-wrap-up-3/
Yes, and without noticing.
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The biggest Slashdot onslaught wouldn't even be a blip on our radar. WordPress.com is number 23 in the Quantcast top sites list. Slashdot is number 6060. A better question would be, could Slashdot survive WordPress.com.
CNN hosts their blogs with us.
Not a hypothetical answer.
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And CNN? This just one of 50 of their blogs we host: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/
And we host http://allthingsd.com/
And last - and best (or me) - the Top Gear blog:
http://sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com/They get millions of hits - something /. cannot get - and it's not a deal, not at all.
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The thing about the Slashdot effect, is that when a story makes it to the top page, roughly 30,000 obsessive-compulsives see the story within about 5 seconds, and most of them click on the link immediately.
That's the real issue. I realize WordPress is a giant compared to a site like Slashdot.
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I think that Mark is trying to tell you that WP routinely copes with effects bigger than the /. effect.
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Hmm... but there won't be more hits on the WordPress blog than Slashdot is getting.
So I withdraw my question. Thanks, WP team!
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The volume of a slashdot effect is less extreme and less sudden than you think.
But yes, we handle bigger floods than that every day without even noticing.
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