The call came in this morning!

[weswilson]

"Wes, we're getting 2000 hits per minute... we have to shut it down."

Gonna rename everything and put it back up... see what happens.

Comments

[enderu.livejournal.com]

Thought you might want to know, it's been dugg (http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Role_Playing_Game_Inspirational_Posters). Of course the page is down now, but Coral Cache picked it up.

[weswilson]

What does that mean?

Saw the link, but am unfamiliar with the site.

[enderu.livejournal.com]

It's a social bookmarking site. Anyone can submit articles, blogs, whatever and people vote on it. If it makes it to the front page (as yours did) it gets pounded. It gets more internet traffic than Slashdot (according to Alexa), and in May had 8.5 million unique page views.

Basically, most any server that isn't commercially operated won't last if something on that server makes it to Digg's front page.

[enderu.livejournal.com]

I got most of those statistics from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg which does a pretty good job explaining it all.

[mystrys.livejournal.com]

I've been seeing it EVERYWHERE!! Yer Popular :)! -Mystrys

[weswilson]

a bit TOO popular... fixing that now.

[dunce-at-large.livejournal.com]

I've seen this effect before.... ;)

[weswilson]

HA!

[brodycatsmouth.livejournal.com]

The totally unrelated flamewar in the comments of digg is amazing and lame.

[weswilson]

hahahha... yeah, I noticed that.

You know...

[pickmansraven.livejournal.com]

I do have a potential mirror for you - One of my sites that's using 0% of it's bandwidth...

Drop me a line: horus@larp.com

Re: You know...

[weswilson]

If you'd like to mirror it, please feel free to grab the file of images and web pages.

http://www.thornyscrate.com/~wes/roleplaying/RPGMotivational.zip

[jodilyn.livejournal.com]

It made it to my guild website :)

[weswilson]

did you tell them how cool you were to know me?

[jodilyn.livejournal.com]

Like they don't know how cool I am?!

wait. why are you laughing?

[fahkingnut.livejournal.com]

I was one of those hits last night. I was happy to see a couple of Paranoia references.

Love & Hugs,
FahKingNut

[weswilson]

yeah... I added some more.. so go take a peak when I put the new link up

[ritamaya.livejournal.com]

are you bragging about being more popular than me?

[weswilson]

I could never be more popular than you... you have all the cool kids hanging out with you.

[sabrina-pandora.livejournal.com]

Ads! Income must be generated by thy works, Mister Wilson!

[weswilson]

If you'd like to mirror it, please feel free to grab the file of images and web pages.

http://www.thornyscrate.com/~wes/roleplaying/RPGMotivational.zip

My only request is that you leave the HTML intact so they know who collected it and how to get to the RPG.net thread.

[weswilson]

Yes, I'd like the sitemeter to stick around.

See the link at the top of the page to the RPG.net thread? I got those posters from it.

[weswilson]

want me to link it from the original site? To spread out some of the bandwidth love?

[weswilson]

btw... someone already set up this mirror if you just want to use it.

http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/

[(Anonymous)]

Its been Farked too

[weswilson]

Yeah, I submitted it originally about 24 hours before the site went down, but it didn't get vetted. It didn't get vetted till someone else posted a mirror. My only gripe was that the mirror didn't have a links to the original thread that started it, this journal, or my sitemeter so I could study the traffic.