The Digg Effect – Apologies for Site Downtime
To all my loal reader (s) I would like to apologise for the recent downtime on this site, it seems Servage are not as Digg-Proof as I currently thought as I found a warning and a site suspended email in my inbox when I returned from work a couple of days ago.
Yes it seems I was hit by the Digg Effect - Although in this case at the instigation of Slashdot.
It seems my Article on Google Chrome was quite popular.
In the matter of 10 minutes my site was hit by 30,000 unique visitors and suspended by servage, after that in the next hour my server reported a further ~700,000 unique hits. Firstly let me say, this is the most popular response any of my articles has ever had, I was actually quite heartwarmed by the fact that from the first snippet of my post enogh people were interested to push this to the top of Slashdot.
So for that reason I would like to offer both my heartfelt thanks and apologies to everyone who read my article and to those who could not access it!
In the meantime, although my sever rental has just been renewed, I am going to begin looking for a more robust host who will see me through traffic surges!

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