By Robert Farago
November 19, 2008
As our regular readers know, TTAC’s labored on the Motown meltdown story for the last eight years, in relative obscurity. As the situation has moved towards its disastrous denouement, our traffic has exploded. It’s gratifying to see our focus rewarded by mainstream interest. Of course, it’s always the bus you don’t see that melts your servers. In this case, our Chinese correspondent Bertel Schmitt’s post on the possibility of The Middle Kingdom buying-up GM and Chrysler struck a nerve– on both sides of the Pacific. Stateside, we’ve been instapundited and digged and linked to from here, there and everywhere (a.k.a. Edmunds). The influx– over 1.25m page views today (as compared to 2.5m per month) lead to a big ass site crash. I apologize for the interruption of service. Suffice to say, we’re back and we’re bad (as always). TTAC may be a bit cranky for a while, as the boffins move shit around (the technical term) to try and cope with the traffic. Thanks for your patience. Especially those of you who’ve provided the foundation for our growth: TTAC’s Best and Brightest.
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November 19th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I was wondering whether the GM fanboys were doing a DDOS on you.
Congratulations on hitting the big time; can you hire Justin back now?
November 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I was thinking DDOS as well but if it is legitimate traffic, congrats!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Funny -haha- how we all thought the same thing.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I was thinking DDOS too! Funny.
Good to see the site getting some increased traffic. I hate traffic, though! We were here first dammit!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I’ve noticed more links to TTAC from other sites that I follow. You seem to be gaining traction.
Congrats!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Gee, I wonder TTAC is going to do after the D3 go belly up. It’s going to be so anti-climatic.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
It’s so easy to slip. Servers sometimes have a Teenage Nervous Breakdown and that’s Cold, Cold. Cold. But if TTAC is Willin’, it’ll keep movin’.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Congrats on blowin’ up to MSMdom.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
ellaguru:
Fast and Bulbous!!
That’s right, the Mascara Snake, Fast and Bulbous.
etc.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I was having a lot of trouble with the site last night until I turned my flash player off. The Porsche banner was somehow using all my computing resources.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Congratulations, the traffic is deserved, even if the site crash is a bummer. I remember being alarmed at where the Big 2.NotSoMuch were headed a couple years ago, and finding this site in a search for information that wasn’t cheerleading (coastal media rarely addresses the auto industry, and Detroit media websites were, until a couple weeks ago, full of happy-talk (they’re now full of panic-talk, a sudden transition that would be embarrassing to the self-aware)).
November 19th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Great news that TTAC is blowing up (in the good sense). If GM does go tango uniform, do you think RF will get any good MSM interviews?
Or how about a book deal?!? Combine all the DW’s (and selected B&B comments) along with epic retrospective comments from RF. While I’m sure it’d be hard pressed to make Oprah’s book club (the blacklist from ‘flying vagina’ exists), it would have a business niche.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
congrats, may your efforts be rewarded with more than just fleeting interest.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
And to think I arrived at TTAC through a VW R32 review!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I was having a lot of trouble with the site last night until I turned my flash player off. The Porsche banner was somehow using all my computing resources.
@ rpn453
Hey, Thanx for that little tidbit. Seems to have dramatically helped me too.
That SHOULD give the web site programmers a hint as to where at least part of the problem is.
Maybe an email to the B&B from TTAC suggesting they turn off they’re flash players would be a nice touch?
November 20th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Robert,
You’d love my record collection. Plenty of Kimock and Lowell George.