Got Digg'd and other updates

First of, if you had experienced difficulty visiting Simplebucket.com over the weekend, I'm sorry. This was not planned in any part by us and is also other known as the Digg Effect. So the story is, one of our users had wanted upload a screenshot of an email he got from Dominoes offering "Recession Deals" and posted his screenshot on Digg.com. This in turn got the Diggers going and after some 324 Diggs, it hit the main page of Digg on Saturday sending tons of visitors to Simplebucket.



The sudden surge in incoming requests brought our good old web server, Apache, into fits and he started to process stuff slower, and slower and finally, Apache could not take it anymore.




Well, at least, the lesson that I had taken away from this great event is - Never trust Apache's default configuration values. To make the long story short and avoiding all the technical gory details, I had to tweak certain Apache's configuration parameters and that finally give Apache a breather.

Putting that aside, I hope to announce some changes soon to Simplebucket. As many of you know, Simplebucket has been offering our FREE simple photo hosting for a while and in order to keep us going(*hint: it takes money to buy gas) so we will be tweaking Simplebucket a little bit just so we keep this great service up by getting some income to grow the site.

There will be a upcoming software release for Simplebucket.com where we will be putting in hot features that users has been requesting such as "albums", deleting photos that they do not want and a few bug fixes here and there. Overall, I promise, any change is for the good and if you love using Simplebucket and has something to say about Simplebucket, I would like to hear. Send me an email at support@simplebucket.com or better still, write about Simplebucket if you blog.