FFC Down Time. Growing Pains.
Dear FFC Readers,
Wow… and, I’m sorry. This morning I received 12,000+ visitors in a short period of time, causing the site to exceed bandwidth limits of my hosting account. As a result of the heavy traffic, my web hosting company shut me down and said I was using too many resources, affecting other websites on the same ’shared’ web server. Before today, the largest amount of unique visitors I had in a day was about 2,000. This morning I had 6X that number in only a couple hours. Hence the “Wow”.
Where did the big rush of traffic come from? The free slurpee news post was picked up by lots of different sites, including a couple very large ones with high traffic, and they all linked to me. This is a wonderful thing of course, but my ’shared’ hosting account was simply not prepared to handle the extra load.
The good news — FFC has moved to a Dedicated Server. This won’t happen again.
I apologize for being offline most of the afternoon. Believe me, I was just as surprised as anyone. Thanks for the understanding and support. It’s been a wild day.
I just hope that once you make it big, you remember the little people, FFC.
Oops, meant to type “now that you’ve made it big”
Congratulations. Sounds like you’re about to break into the top 200k soon.
Thanks for the support guys.
I don’t know about making it big, but I have a BIG hosting account now. Heh!
Heh, time to get some more ads besides just that NamePros one!
Get some of that McDonalds money
Great to see you’re getting so much traffic, I’m a regular visitor and love your site.
Keep at it and your traffic will only continue.
Congratulations on your success!
Overloading your shared hosting account is a true rite of passage.
And that was an impressive turnaround time to move to a dedicated server. What was it, 12 hours?
FFC’s hit the big time!