{"id":621,"date":"2009-09-09T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T05:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T05:26:29","slug":"blog-survived-due-to-pigeon-race-got-slashdotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/blog-survived-due-to-pigeon-race-got-slashdotted\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog survived due to Pigeon Race &#8211; got Slashdotted :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at my blog stats this morning, I almost fell off my chair.&nbsp; To give you some idea, the traffic on this blog is less than 50 pageviews (around 40 visitors) a day and yesterday and overnight it skyrocketed due to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=615\">Pigeon I wrote about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pigeon article alone has almost 4000 views at the moment and here is some graphs that show my blog traffic over the past couple of days:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blogimages\/pagevisit-20090908.png\" \/><br \/>Blue: Pageviews &#8211; Yellow: Visitors<br \/>From:&nbsp; Google Analystics<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blogimages\/wpstats-20090908.png\" \/><br \/>This is from WordPress Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>So where did the traffic come from:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blogimages\/traffic-20090908.png\" \/><br \/>Yes, as can be seen, I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\">Slashdotted<\/a> and my blog survived.&nbsp; Here is the story on Slashdot: <a href=\"http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/08\/1414248\/SAs-Largest-Telecomms-Provider-vs-a-Pigeon?from=rss\">http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/08\/1414248\/SAs-Largest-Telecomms-Provider-vs-a-Pigeon?from=rss<\/a>. It was even on the front page of Slashdot for a while.<\/p>\n<p>What I am really glad about is that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=583\">moved this blog not so long<\/a> ago to a new host.&nbsp; If this was the old host, it surely would not have survived.&nbsp; My new host, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?481953\">Dreamhost<\/a>, handle this kind of traffic without any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/slashdot\" rel=\"tag\">slashdot<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/pigeon\" rel=\"tag\">pigeon<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/race\" rel=\"tag\">race<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/telkom\" rel=\"tag\">telkom<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dreamhost\" rel=\"tag\">dreamhost<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/stats\" rel=\"tag\">stats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at my blog stats this morning, I almost fell off my chair.&nbsp; To give you some idea, the traffic on this blog is less than 50 pageviews (around 40 visitors) a day and yesterday and overnight it skyrocketed due <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/blog-survived-due-to-pigeon-race-got-slashdotted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Blog survived due to Pigeon Race &#8211; got Slashdotted \ud83d\ude42<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[270,485,491,490,492,239],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-technical","tag-dreamhost","tag-pigeon","tag-race","tag-slashdot","tag-stats","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}