October 2nd, 2007 admin
I understand how much it is hard to handle millions of daily requests when you have a website with massive traffic like StumbleUpone, what also makes it harder is getting millions of automated requests by bots, spammers and some DOS attack, however that doesn’t justify the low performance of SU servers in the last week.
If you want to be one of the big web players like; “I wouldn’t say Google or Yahoo”, at least the social medial players like Digg or Facebook you need to have fast servers.
I n the internet sphere the hard part to get some success is to get the good idea, then spread it and eventually get the audiences, hardware problems should not be a reason to lose your audiences, especially we are living now in a days these you can easily get hundreds of servers with powerful T1 lines connected with affordable prices, even for small to medium companies.
I hope SU IT team will figure out as soon as possible how to handle the increased daily requests, and be prepared for more, keeping in mind that Facebook is having 150 000 new users daily.
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September 27th, 2007 admin
Before stumbling your story make sure that you choose a popular category
I have clicked my stumble button 100 successive times in one session, and I have noticed that about 95% of the pages SU returns were added in categories of my interests. So if you want to write a Stumble worthy story make sure that it falls under a category with enough audiences or if you have a story that fits tow categories, make sure that you go for the more popular one.
How to know the most popular categories ? SU makes it easy for you through the tag cloud on the home page, simply the bigger is more popular.
You may ask yourself are not the popular categories getting more new stories and eventually my chance will be the same if I submit to a low popularity category will less new stories, theoretically that looks right but practically and after many experiments I find out that submitting to the popular categories is far better that low popularity ones. If you try this and find more to add on to this post please feel free to do
Best regards
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September 23rd, 2007 admin
In a previous post I had provided a list of the most popular stumblers in terms of number of fans. Today I am providing the same list in a sort of auto updated interactive widget, what is the difference between the widget and the old static list?
add a popular stumbler
- Anybody can propose a stumbler name to be listed in the widget using the add a popular stumbler link (stumblers with less than 1000 fans will not be included in the database)
- The widget gets updated two times a day through cronjob, so the numbers are always fresh.
- You can include this widget in your blog, Facebook, Myspace and more, Just hover the widget and you will see a button says copy me, click it for inclusion options.I would link to thank yourminis for the nice widget, I think this is the best to view your RSS feed.
Enjoy
thewis.stumbleupon.com
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August 8th, 2007 admin
Who is the most popular Stumbler? The most popular stumbler is simply the one that has the largest number of fans. While I’m browsing profiles, I find some stumblers with over one thousand fans and others with over two thousand. I will list some profiles that I think are the most poplar stumblers
1- http://etcetera.stumbleupon.com/ 5023 Fans
2- http://caile-girl.stumbleupon.com/ 3172
3- http://nacmacfeagle.stumbleupon.com/ 3152
4- http://blondieluvsthis.stumbleupon.com/ 2565
5- http://fna.stumbleupon.com/ 2544
6- http://fenix.stumbleupon.com/ 2303
7 - http://gmc.stumbleupon.com/ 2273
8- http://bonbell.stumbleupon.com/ 2227
9 - http://klassy.stumbleupon.com/ 2015
10- http://starspirit.stumbleupon.com/ 1853
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http://clovia.stumbleupon.com/ 1760
http://yola.stumbleupon.com/ 1741
http://blessedone.stumbleupon.com/ 1531
http://anitabath.stumbleupon.com/ 1536
http://pepsea.stumbleupon.com/ 1027
I am sure that I may have missed some good stumblers, so please feel free to use the comment box to add to my list.
If you are one of the most popular stumblers, I would be more than happy to have you as a guest in my blog to write about your success with Stumbleupon.
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