Phew, what a weekend!

Two of my posts got featured on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, and a variety of other sites such as YCombinator News, DZone, and, strangely enough, Monitor.hr (yep, that’s a croatian technology news site…). The result? Well, before this happened, I had built up traffic to about 3000-4000 hits per month. Over the weekend, I got about 150 thousand hits, with over 80 thousand on Saturday alone.

Needless to say, I’m very happy about this! However, my host (DreamHost) were less than pleased with the result, particularly since I wasn’t expecting this at all and so didn’t have any caching. So they took down my site temporarily. Now, I can totally understand why they did this, but ultimately, I can’t accept that someone else can turn off my site. Therefore, I’ve decided it’s now time to migrate to a private server. Before that, I didn’t want the overhead, because I just want to write a blog, not administer a blog. However, with this kind of traffic possible, it’s becoming worthwhile to host this on my own server so that I can ensure that it never gets taken down during a traffic spike again.

So, anyway - by the time you see this post, it’ll mean that you’re accessing the new server, which is based in the Netherlands - so it’ll be a tad slower for US folks, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Welcome to all the people who subscribed to the RSS feed after the weekend, too. Have a nice week everyone!