Yes, We’re Back
Well, yesterday was an awkward day. Shortly after I found out that LiveLeak had deleted Wilders’ movie, titled “Fitna,” PoliGazette was down. I contacted the hosting company, but they didn’t respond; left a phone message and sent an e-mail. Of course I directly contacted co-bloggers and befriended bloggers, to let them know about the problems; I explained to them that two things could have caused a suspension in my view. Exceeding our limits, or political reasons. It happened, of course, after we published “Fitna” and spent a lot of attention to this controversial movie, so we were all a bit paranoid, fearing that it was the PC police once again.
However, it seems that the PC police had nothing to do with it; at least, the hosting company (alfahosting) isn’t overly political correct. They sent me the following e-mail, while I was asleep:
Beste,
De site genereerde een load van meer dan 30 en we hebben deze moeten schorsen, verwittigen kon helaas niet door een technisch probleem.
Ik zet de site terug online en hou de server nog even in het oog, als het geen probleem meer vormt blijft hij online.
Hebt u veel bezoekers bijgekregen in de laatste dagen want voordien is er nooit dergelijk probleem geweest.
Aarzel niet ons te contacteren bij verdere vragen,
Translation:
The site generated a load of more than 30 and we had to suspend it, sadly we couldn’t inform you about it due to a technical problem.
I’m putting the site back online and will keep an eye on the server, if it’s no longer a problem it’ll remain online.
Did you gain many new visitors in the last couple of days because before today this problem never occurred.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have more questions,
Now; did we gain many more visitors? Not really. The last couple of days were good but not exceptional days. 5,000 visitors on both days. That’s, again, good, but it’s not exactly a PoliGazette record.
I asked them whether it could have been some kind of attack; waiting to hear from them on that. UPDATE two minutes after posting: probably not an attack. Good. See how paranoid one becomes?
As it is, I wanted to take the time to thank the many bloggers (such as Susan Duclos, Charles Johnson, Michelle Malkin, Jimmie, PatHMV of Stubborn Facts, Robert Spencer, Sister Toldjah, Fausta; if you’re not mentioned, it’s not because I don’t care, but simply because the list has to be limited) who contacted me yesterday or responded to my e-mail sent to them about the site, or were kind enough to let readers know that PoliGazette was down.
Indeed, we’re back up Glenn, and now we seem to know what happened.
The site generated a load of more than 30
More than 30 what? I still suspect it was a sudden high peak traffic/bandwidth load from the Instalanche, especially if many of them were streaming the video via this site.
In any case, glad you’re back.
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yearsvisits, it’s themileagepeak bandwidth load."But Tully: that link wasn’t to the video and… it’s not as if that hasn’t happened before. And in the past there was no problem. That’s why it’s so strange.
Larison had a problem with bandwidth, and the site shut down once it exceeded the monthly paid allotment. Or it could be a joint Iranian-Saudis malevolent JavaScript Islamic attack to silence the infidels.
Should you, I don’t know, tell on someone?
Video streams were serviced by LiveLeak. You don’t incur bandwidth costs by just embedding them. By that token, Poligazette’s saying ‘we host them’ was technically inaccurate.
I only gave a heads up on two lone occassions, as a courtesy, not to start a blog war. But thanks for the recent flare up between the "Polikids" and Che Mullen’s, I didn’t spend much time on the Internets during the initials cat fight. The SM posting(Drag) and your "The Future" and Blogwar postings I missed at first publishing and didn’t even know of their existence. Reading those were quite entertaining. Those three are now saved in super secret favs. This has been edited by MvdG and… try that again and you’re banned. Yes, I’m like that.
Now go run off and tell on someone little squirrel!