Crawling from the wreckage

Besides being a pretty cool song, it describes the network after Tuesday night … There is a site hosted here by a reseller and my policy is to not expose sites that are hosted here to anyone. But, this site brought the network close to its knees Tuesday night. I have heard on The Howard Stern show about him mentioning a web address and the traffic created shuts down the server (it simply congests the connection) but access to the site becomes almost impossible … For the first time ever, this happened here except the web address was mentioned on National Television … The site was mentioned Tuesday night on The Late Show with David Letterman … I guess the guy who resells this site would want to promote the site even though it’s resold, so he could comment here if he reads this … but I sorta wanted a heads up to those people who host through me what had happened this past Tuesday night and the following days … Wednesday it was still pretty busy and fell off a bit Thursday … We’ll see what happens come later today … I think the initial traffic Tuesday night was people simply hitting the site, but the following days they had posted the video (streaming) of the appearance and that was probably killing the connection as well … While it’s a shame that it slammed the connection, it’s pretty cool that it happened … In a weird way, eh?

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