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How Bill Gates Took Down My Site

by JD

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He’s a popular guy.  Somebody Stumbled my post on How To Think Like Bill Gates, and the traffic spike exceeded what my hoster could allow for a shared server.  So if you happened to wander by Sources of Insight last Sunday, you might have noticed it wasn’t available.

Here’s the impact … I had to move to a dedicated server which changed the costs of my little blog from a few dollars a month to a few hundred a month.  Wow.  I did not expect this.  It’s the Slashdot effect

What I also did not expect is that my site was not available for a stretch of time during the migration.  I also had to re setup and pay for a more expensive backup plan.  All of this, to deal with periodic spikes.

The good news is, I can revert back to my shared hosting cost, if my traffic goes down.  The bad news is, each time I hit a spike, I’ll either have a server down, or I have to swap back and forth between a dedicated server and shared hosting.  Not good.

Maybe it’s a sign that it’s time to level up in life.  I might just stick with the dedicated server for now.

I can’t help but think back to my early days of little league.  I was batting .700 (which, if you know baseball is extremely high.)  I was in the minors and didn’t want to move to the majors … I thought I would suck.  The surprise for me, was I didn’t, and although my average went down, I was batting in the .300-.400 range, which was still extremely high.

Here’s how I’m going to respond to this unexpected change of plans:

  1. Stick with the dedicated hosting per now.
  2. Experiment and test ways to fund my site.
  3. Enjoy the journey.

I figure if I keep flowing value, and if I give more than I get, then things should take care of themselves.  Worst case, I’ll learn a lot from my experiments, and at least my site should now handle more traffic.

So if you see me fumble and stumble along the way, please bear with me, while I find my wings.

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