Friday, September 28th, 2007...3:34 am
Stumbleupon slows down when you stumble too much
We use Stumbleupon for promoting some of the new websites that we come up with. Lately, my whole Firefox browser has been slowing down due to the large number of stumbles. At 127K pages and at least 10 KB per stumble, (Some stumbles have images), that’s about 1,270,000,000 (1.27GB, yes you could probably almost afford a iPod Nano for this much data…)
I am assuming that that MySQL database cannot process my stumbles fast enough. Everytime I stumble, it takes me about 5 seconds to get to a new page whereas before, I could stumble within a second. So I created a new account to test out if this was the case. It turns out that is the case.
Maybe Stumbleupon needs to hire Computer Algorithm experts to do some hashing algorithms which will allow you to stumble faster…
So for now, just make a new account if you really feel the need to stumble every hour like me…too bad I did pay $20 to become a sponsor. (they should really just give me an award for stumbling a lot… like some stumbleupon t-shirts, stickers I can put on my car… :p )
Check out my stumbles here.
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