Most Digg users probably don’t think about the technology it takes to

keep Digg up and running. That’s a good thing. That means hopefully

the site always loads when you want to use it and the pages load fast

enough so you don’t give up and go somewhere else. That’s the

operations team’s primary goal: that Digg is always available.

That’s not to say we don’t occasionally perform maintenance that

limits your access to the features of Digg, or that there aren’t

occasional glitches in the systems. Right now, for example, Digg

is experiencing growing pains. We’re running out of space in our

current primary datacenter (the place where the servers, databases and

networks that run Digg live). So, that we wouldn’t wake up one day and

just say, “Oops, gee, I guess no Digging today,” several months ago we

began the process of moving Digg to a new, larger datacenter space,

with more room for expansion.

Our goals were to find a space with the same (or better) ample power

and cooling as our current facility; to find a space with plenty of

room we could expand into as Digg grow