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I was talking with Omar today and he wanted
to see some traffic details posted from the
day I was Slashdotted. Some folks didn't think that dasBlog was up
for the test. Frankly I was surprised that the traffic was so low! Seems
like everyone's site tips over when they get Slashdotted. I'm just running the
standard shared hosting plan at OrcsWeb.
Even during the height of it I was still running around in the admin interface without
a burp. I was getting quick page views and hadn't even turned HttpCompression
on yet. Note, this is just page views, not every Http GET (don't want to
count gifs, etc) or Aggregator Traffic.
Date
Views
Sun Dec 21st, 2003
>
1,751
>
Mon Dec 22nd, 2003
>
12,928
>
Tues Dec 23rd, 2003
>
4,227
>
>
It doesn't seem like that much traffic to me. I transfered 1.54GB that day.
Then again, I only get about ~2,000 page views a day; most of my traffic is Aggregator
traffic. Monday's have typically been my biggest days.
Why did dasBlog make it and others fail? Maybe this says something about the
average web site on the net? Or the average hardware? Or .NET?
Or maybe it's just that with the proliferation of Blogs out there, more people get
there news from the set of all sites that are NOT Slashdot?
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