IlohaBlog: WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com was taken out due to overwhelming traffic. According to the temporary outage page:
The site was so popular that 4000 visitors per second showed up from around the world and overwhelmed this shared server for over 8 hours until we turned it off in self defense.That piece of information helps me a lot because it gives me an idea of how much traffic a popular blog could potentially receive... I wish they'd be a little more specific though. Was it really 4000 visitors, or was it 4000 page views? If it really was 4000 visitors per second, that probably translates to much more page views per second.
Posted Wed, April 28, 2004 03:17 by Gay Hitchhiker
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