Comments on: TTAC Server Slammed by Traffic: 1.25m Page Views Today

By: Ronnie Schreiber

Ronnie Schreiber — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:10:15 +0000

Robert,

You’d love my record collection. Plenty of Kimock and Lowell George.

By: Wolven

Wolven — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:03:54 +0000

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?

By: Areitu

Areitu — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:50:43 +0000

And to think I arrived at TTAC through a VW R32 review!

By: dhanson865

dhanson865 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:43:44 +0000

congrats, may your efforts be rewarded with more than just fleeting interest.

By: ihatetrees

ihatetrees — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:06:13 +0000

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.

By: ttilley

ttilley — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:55:14 +0000

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)).

By: rpn453

rpn453 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:31:50 +0000

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.

By: Kevin Kluttz

Kevin Kluttz — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:33:46 +0000

ellaguru:

Fast and Bulbous!!
That’s right, the Mascara Snake, Fast and Bulbous.
etc.

By: AG

AG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:28:38 +0000

Congrats on blowin’ up to MSMdom.

By: ellaguru

ellaguru — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:49:41 +0000

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’.

By: beken

beken — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:23:24 +0000

Gee, I wonder TTAC is going to do after the D3 go belly up. It’s going to be so anti-climatic.

By: yankinwaoz

yankinwaoz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:54 +0000

I’ve noticed more links to TTAC from other sites that I follow. You seem to be gaining traction.

Congrats!

By: pb35

pb35 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:40:59 +0000

I was thinking DDOS too! Funny.

Good to see the site getting some increased traffic. I hate traffic, though! We were here first dammit!

By: ExtraO

ExtraO — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:29:06 +0000

Funny -haha- how we all thought the same thing.

By: Robstar

Robstar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:24:18 +0000

I was thinking DDOS as well but if it is legitimate traffic, congrats!

By: toxicroach

toxicroach — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:22:33 +0000

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?