First off, thanks Ploghost, my webhost, for attending to my site being down yesterday.
Secondly, here’s the reason I did go down bad yesterday: I got BoingBoing’d, for my Sex Toys Expo posts. Here’s an apt disclaimer: I suggested my own story. I actually submitted it on Digg first, but as of last count, I only got 3 diggs.
I did have a plan to generate traffic to the posts: I acknowledge the potential of the topic, and considering that the content documented by me, I wouldn’t expect much flak for it. My only regret so far would be:
- not preparing enough for the possible outcome, noting that I don’t have a computer, nor internet access at the apartment; I went over my 2 gigs of bandwidth allotment
- not including the PinoyTopBlogs code
The stats so far:
2377 views for this Flickr image, the same one posted on BoingBoing.
3824 overall views for this YouTube video, and:
#7 – Most Linked (This Week) – Travel & Places
#31 – Most Linked (This Month) – Travel & Places
#8 – Most Viewed (This Week) – Travel & PlacesAs for site stats, Aug 15 marked that I generated 773.31 MB of bandwidth.
The stats for the other Flickr photos and YouTube videos are close to the ones noted above.
Another issue I had would be permalinks related, hence I had to rewrite the .htaccess again.
Oh, and how were the ad impressions? One word: pathetic, except for the dude who downloaded Firefox with Google Toolbar.
at least next time you’ll be ready (in case you post pictures of vibeys again) 😆
the people got too much *excited*
ALL: Sex sells. Have to think of another topic to bring down my site. Hmmm.