Sorry for the downtime everyone

[Brent]

The site got absolutely KILLED by traffic today. We broke our online record by a long shot with Most users ever online was 1,538, Today at 10:54 PM.

Everything should be calming down by tomorrow and things can get back to their normal routine hopefully.

I will def. be looking into a better server for the future!

[Brent]

Here is the story for anyone interested: digg - Hail Owns a Boeing 727 At 35,000 Feet

[Thomas91169]

dam you got owned!

[bluemustang]

werd do i get a prize for bring this much traffic to the site?

thats just crazy i never even thought something like that would cause chaos here. im awesome

[Thomas91169]

so what happened anyways? does it have to do with that 747 story?

[Brent]

727 story and yes. We hit the mainpage of digg.com and reddit.com and then it was a snowball effect of links. Everyone on Digg saw it and then linked to that thread from their sites. As of 7AM today we are sitting at 12k uniques.

Once it calms down it is going to be good for the site as this will give us quite a few links to the site which search engines love.

[Ken]

Maybe you want that swf file that killed my personal site a few years ago.. You can still find it on the first few pages of google (linking to my site)...