lighty's life: getting dugg

getting dugg

jan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:20:00 +0000

digg.com is currently having lighttpd.net on the front-page It looks like del.icio.us got also “infected” and its users joined right away

The rails-based mephisto-blog which is driving this site is generating static content which is served by lighty. Thanks to darix work on clean-url and mod-magnet impact on the site is minimal.

The usual morning starts with a coffee, reading mails and checking the referer-logs. That’s long story … reading log-files. Scrolling log-files are looking like the Matrix and are very relaxing.

As I don’t run a log-file analyzer I use a simple grep to scan the last few lines of the referer log:

$ tail -100000 .../access.log |\
   grep -v 'light_button' | \
   awk -F ' ' '{ print $11 }' |\
   grep -v '\(kneschke\|incremental\|lighttpd\.net\|/#"$\)' |\
   sort |\
   uniq -c |\
   sort -r -n | less

Usually we have mininova or rubyonrails sending us most of the referers over the day, but this morning we get:

   1081 "http://digg.com/" 
    963 "http://www.digg.com/" 
    615 "http://digg.com/linux_unix/lighttpd_Fast_Secure_and_Flexible_Web_Server" 
     84 "http://digg.com/news" 
     78 "http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/lighttpd_Fast_Secure_and_Flexible_Web_Server" 
     58 "http://www.digg.com/view/technology" 
     45 "http://www.digg.com/news" 
     42 "http://del.icio.us/" 
     35 "http://digg.com/view/technology" 
     33 "http://digg.com/view/all" 
     30 "http://www.digg.com/view/all" 
     21 "http://doggdot.us/" 
     15 "http://news.netcraft.com/" 
     14 "http://digg.com/linux_unix" 
     12 "http://www.digg.com" 
      8 "http://www.planetmysql.org/?offset=60" 
      8 "http://www.digg.com/linux_unix" 
      8 "http://diggriver.com/"

"getting dugg" by Josh

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:32:02 +0000

Same here, hard to navigate.

"getting dugg" by Corey

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:28:27 +0000

Nope Tim, I miss it too...I don't like this new site...feels too much like I'm always stuck on a blog.

"getting dugg" by Tim

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:18:51 +0000

Am I the only person who misses the design of the old site? http://web.archive.org/web/20060517005821/http://www.lighttpd.net/

"getting dugg" by darix

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:21:15 +0000

when its done.

"getting dugg" by Perl-Uwe

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:59:53 +0000

This is great! Maybe some of the visitors become lighty users and help us beat Sun web server :-)
Jan, any idea when 1.5 will be out?

"getting dugg" by sleets

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:20:49 +0000

Waiting for 1.5.0 release

"getting dugg" by elliott cable

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:37:55 +0000

I'm sure we all want to know how well the server held up! d-: