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Slashdotted!

I got featured on Slashdot and Neowin yesterday! The articles link to a screenshot of Firefox’s main window that I put up as part of last week’s review, and was probably why I had 1.33GB of transfer yesterday (as a guide, that’s half of what I had in April as a whole). Referals from Neowin alone brought 7000 visitors.
I’ve taken the image down (or rather replaced it with a half kilobyte apology), since I don’t want to lose my hosting. I’m allowed around 10GB/month and so far I’ve used 60% of that with only half of the month gone…
I checked my host’s terms and conditions again – it’s actually 30GB/month, so I’m actually alright. Phew!

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6 Comments

  1. I’m getting killed too – I’m now number one for a Google search for Popular Bloggers. Join in the fun my friend.

  2. Ah, congrats!
    You also got neowined, but I guess that doesn’t sound anywear near as effective.
    Pretty cheeky linking to the pictures and not the articles though.

  3. Are you sure you’ve only got 10Gb? I’ve just checked the T+C’s of your hosting company, and they give a “recommendation” of 30Gb/month – but I’m aware some people are utilising over 100Gb/month with them…

  4. There is another reason: try searching “Firefox+0.9″ on Mozilla, and you’ll see that it can be useful to attract people, like me or example !

  5. I was one of those visiters! (after the image replace) I recognize the “slashdot effect” image you put up. And now i’ve floated back to your site through the same article link at a completely different site (redemption in a blog). Ah, the internet is a very fun place to get lot in. Speaking of which, I need to get to work. Great site!
    p.s. – I can’t believe they hotlinked directly to your image, and not to your article.