BoingBoing'd again

[johnridley]

In case anyone hasn't seen it, dizzy_d's cake made it to BoingBoing and the image is hosted on my server. That's OK though, it's only a 68K image, I'm on pretty wide hosting on a big pipe and the smaller copy directly embedded in the BB article is hosted on craphound. The one that killed me was a couple of years ago when I had an FLV movie from Duckon hosted on a godaddy cheapo plan and got a few hundred thousand hits. Ouch.

This one should be no problem.

Comments

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

Getting on BB is harsh. When it happened to me I had some gigantic spike, and the ad revenue was trivial. Good thing I didn't break my monthly 95th percentile stuff, else I would have spent $500 or so, while only taking in an extra $12.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

What's ad revenue? I don't have any steenkin ads.

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was meaning that if one does get on BB, ad revenue from it is surprisingly low.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I was unaware that there was ad revenue.

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

When the page that BB links to contains ads, one gets some.

Sorry, I think my head is still a bit fuzzy.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

Ooh,ouch. I asked him where the various bits were hosted and he didn't say they were hosted anywhere but LJ and his site. Sorry. :-/

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

No problems, it doesn't appear to have had any significant impact. We don't have our own bandwidth monitor on that box, but the limit on the co-loc agreement is something like 500 GB/month.

Even with the tesla coil movie that I hosted, I only hit about 120GB in the first day, and this is way smaller than that, and not likely to go viral.

Last night I wrote a quick perl script to dump time and the eth0 byte count from /proc/net/dev to a file once an hour, and we're only running about 8 megs an hour. Given that there are a dozen small sites, a community FTP server and a private game server on there, I'm surprised it's that low even when nothing much is happening. Heck, a Google crawl of my sites would account for that much.

In any case, I've been meaning to put some rudimentary bandwidth monitoring on the site for months now, this gave me a good reason. It only took 30 minutes to do, I just hadn't gotten around to it.

I wish I'd taken the time to get a photo of the cake without the flowers coming out of its head.