I've put you up to 50 GB bandwidth, but if it looks like that might go, I'll up it again. Server is holding up fine - it's a duel opteron so its a beefy machine. Still, will keep the situation monitored.
The walled garden is gone - and whereas i'd love a link from Slashdot, i'd not expect the boost in traffic to come from there alone.
Said Nick Wilson, drawing deeply on a large, oddly pungent cigarette, as he addressed the hoarde of press camped outsite his Danish estate, eagarly awaiting an interview with the creator of "group blogs". A man who overnight became as rich and famous as Bill, Sergy and Larry combined.
Mr Wilson, clad only in his trademark gold lame underpants, assured the press that now that he was famous, it would not change his lifestyle.
Yes advertising on his web site may now cost a tad more, yes he had banned a number of fellow bloggers ISPs (but only because they caused trouble, and really got up his nose), and indeed yes he had ordered another Mercedes...but really it had not changed his life
I wish heh! and by the way, it was only after giving up the oddly pungeant cigerettes that i was able to focus on the screen long enough to start this odd site :)
Nothing much to tell really, our host kept things up on the backend (thanks Brian!) and we carried on as normal.
A few more sign ups, but not many at all really so no need to shut down the user registration as i'd previously planned for this kind of eventuality. One stupid post to remove and lots of fun looking at stats and "visitors online".
All in all, not that exciting. For me though, regardless of traffic, and all else, it was a small, insignificant but forfilling personal ambition acomplished :)
What im really waiting for is Bloglines to update it's "subscribers stats" - we were, and still are sitting at 282 for TW - i want to see a) how many more subbed to the feed, and b) how many unsub in the next 7days...
I was just coming here to ale
I was just coming here to alert you to the slashdot. Hope your servers are up for it. :)
John Q. Public
You know John Q. Public doesn't seem to get it or to care. Some there do but most don't ...
Well Dun
but remember this.
heh...
doesn't matter - it'd damn funny regardless heh..
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/28466.htm
Choice of links is interesting, funny, i heard jc
cornella was told to link to SEW's coverage of Threadwatch's story...
Damn
I'd better open the throttle on your bandwidth allocation. :)
It's not so bad...
They've sent about 10K this way so far...
I've put you up to 50 GB band
I've put you up to 50 GB bandwidth, but if it looks like that might go, I'll up it again. Server is holding up fine - it's a duel opteron so its a beefy machine. Still, will keep the situation monitored.
Cheers
Cheers brian
You know what interests me most in this? Which of the search blogs and forums are NOT reporting it - very telling IMO :)
Nice!
Congrats on you first slashdotting. Re wmw, Brett should rename his nic to google_apologist
A quote for Nick W, the now famous blogger
Said Nick Wilson, drawing deeply on a large, oddly pungent cigarette, as he addressed the hoarde of press camped outsite his Danish estate, eagarly awaiting an interview with the creator of "group blogs". A man who overnight became as rich and famous as Bill, Sergy and Larry combined.
Mr Wilson, clad only in his trademark gold lame underpants, assured the press that now that he was famous, it would not change his lifestyle.
Yes advertising on his web site may now cost a tad more, yes he had banned a number of fellow bloggers ISPs (but only because they caused trouble, and really got up his nose), and indeed yes he had ordered another Mercedes...but really it had not changed his life
Congratulations, Nick :-)
Nice one :)
Nice one :)
Great Stuff Nick!
Keep up the great work.
>>clad only in his trademark gold lame underpants
Pffft....
I wish heh! and by the way, it was only after giving up the oddly pungeant cigerettes that i was able to focus on the screen long enough to start this odd site :)
Back to business...
Congrats. :)
Congrats. :)
Great Job!
It was only a matter of time...
So TW survived..
..the SlashDot effect, and it must me tailing off by now.
Care to blog something about the experience, seems to make most "victims" feel better.
I should have kept this back
...and launched a site on the back of it.
Joking of course. This place seemed to be the natural home for this kind of story.
Experience
Nothing much to tell really, our host kept things up on the backend (thanks Brian!) and we carried on as normal.
A few more sign ups, but not many at all really so no need to shut down the user registration as i'd previously planned for this kind of eventuality. One stupid post to remove and lots of fun looking at stats and "visitors online".
All in all, not that exciting. For me though, regardless of traffic, and all else, it was a small, insignificant but forfilling personal ambition acomplished :)
What im really waiting for is Bloglines to update it's "subscribers stats" - we were, and still are sitting at 282 for TW - i want to see a) how many more subbed to the feed, and b) how many unsub in the next 7days...
natural home
Everyone loves a scandal :)
HAHAHA
Bloglines just updated, 286 - 4, 4? fucking 4?
Sheesh.. (though i think they are usually several days behind on those figures so that may not be the end of it..)
funny though :)
up to 295
up to 295
Looks good on Alexa
Presumably all those geeky people with Alexa toolbars.
The increase in ranking is steep , presumably a fall in the next few days is due!
Net effect TW is ranked at 3,096 today
The referrals keep on coming
PC Magazine wrote an article on Threadwatch and Google cloaking. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1774743,00.asp
Congrats Nick, but I have to be honest. I fear the quality of the posts is about to go down with the exposure to the mainstream.