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.