• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Dryline Hosting

site traffic

Hello David, Tim, and the others,

I'm impressed by the numbers of the visitors! I never had such chance. My top day is with 180 visitors per day and I have made virtually everything, which is possible, to get such traffic as Mike, but with no success:(

Please tell me more about the Fark, Slashdot, and Akamai.

Fark, as I understand, is a site where everyone can post an URL, so it will be visible for short time, can I submit the URL of my homepage? I have option to limit the numbers of the connections and the traffic speed (I'm not using cPanel, because it's paid software, I keep the things as simple as possible, doing the entire work in the good old UNIX style like in '70).

What is "slashdot"? slashdot.com? I know this word ("slashdot") from CNN or other media, and now I see that exist domain slashdot.org for some computer news.

The problem with the visitors on my site is from more than 7 years.

Please, Please, Please explain me how this farking is working!

:)

Angel
 
Dan Robinson said:
Furthermore, the practical benefits of this type of publicity (Fark, etc) are (at least in my experience) not worth the costs. High web site traffic results in a lot of 'oohs and ahhs' and 'that's really cool' from people, but at the end of the day, what does that bring? Not much or anything at all, at least when it happens to me. Certainly doesn't help pay my mortgage, LOL. It's nice to get the exposure, yes, but IMO not worth any bandwidth overages or server headaches! Publicity like this can be more of a curse than a blessing sometimes.
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I think it depends on how you capitalize on the FARKing. The first FARKing I had, lots of people asked about prints, but I didn't have a pricing scheme put up for view and had to email everyone back personally. Most people got cold feet between the time they decided they were interested and the time I emailed them back and I only sold a few prints. The second time I was FARKed (and Reddited), I had a short blurb at the end mentioning pricing, mostly to avoid having people who have no idea about how much art costs and aren't willing to spend more than five bucks bug me with emails. :) That time I ended up making a thousand dollars from print sales. I suspect I could have done a whole lot better if I'd actually bothered to put up a Paypal ordering button or something. The important thing to remember is that FARK doesn't exist to link to sales sites, they exist to link to interesting sites. They didn't mind that I had prices at the bottom, especially since I'd had a bajillion people emailing me the first time, but I doubt they'd link to a site that appeared to be primarily trying to sell things, at least not without paying FARK money for the link.

As for FARK going away any time soon -- Karen, are you kidding?! ;) FARK's been around for six years already and gets like 50 million page views a day!
 
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Fark-Digg-Slashdot effect


Hi,

I'm back. I read in wikipedia about the slashdot effect and few other examples. It's cool:-) and I'm going to blast my infinite 1024 kbps network. Wish me "good luck" ;)

Coming back later (if I don't come back after few hours then I'm blasted:)))).

:-)

Angel
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Hi Ryan,

You have very nice images on your site. About the commercial sites - Yes, I read that on the fark.com, but anyway, if I get 1000 or more visitors per day for an of my images, this is a very good "farking" start for me:) Then I can look forward how can I use the slashdot effect (for which I didn't know so far).

Angel
 
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that trying to "Fark" one's self is probably not a good idea. I don't believe it will workout as one expects it to. :confused:
 
Hi Kurt,

Why do you think so? Fark.com will delete my URL from the site, because it will see that I'm farking myself (looking at the IP of the fark account and the target URL)? I want to play with this kinds of Internet effects.

Can I put a copyright on the image with my URL? May be not... I will re-read the fark.com terms of use.

Angel
 
Angel Dimitrov said:
Hi Kurt,

Why do you think so? Fark.com will delete my URL from the site, because it will see that I'm farking myself (looking at the IP of the fark account and the target URL)? I want to play with this kinds of Internet effects.

Can I put a copyright on the image with my URL? May be not... I will re-read the fark.com terms of use.

Angel
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Hi, Angel! The way FARK works is that users submit stories to them. They get thousands and thousands of submissions a day, and only a handfull are selected to go to the main page. You're free to submit your own site, but they reject the overwhelming majority of most submissions. It's this selectiveness that makes them popular -- people keep coming back to the site because it's a source of interesting content. :)
 
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ah... bad... thanks for the info, Ryan:) If someone of you know way to get in slashdot storm, please let me know:)

Angel
 
I tell you the person that called for everyone on fark to crash my server has caused just about as much problems as the initial farking has. I've been having to block IPs left and right and it's still going on today. :(
 
I just wanted to follow up in case anyone that was interested missed this on Dryline forums. We just commissioned a new Dual Core Xeon server today that will be a replacement for the current one. More robust and should be able to handle more demands placed on it.
 
I'm pretty sure this wouldn't have happened if you hosted on a Windows server with the Helm Control Panel :D

Actually, good luck with a tough situation. Been there/Done that.
 
I must have bad luck. I signed up for drylinehosting after UNL booted by ftp privlidges. I had a hell of a time ftp-ing all the files due to the farking mess. Got everything up and running a couple days ago with the new domain name. Here it is: http://www.plainschase.com
I threw some baseball cards on eBay last night with my images stored on my site but the server must have crashed sometime this morning as my images arn't live nor is the host site accessible early this morning. Just keep that thing from nosediving weekday evenings when most people are shopping/bidding.

From what I hear around ST is the service is top notch but I just have a knack of picking the worst times getting things done.

Cheers,
JT
 
Justin Turcotte said:
I threw some baseball cards on eBay last night with my images stored on my site but the server must have crashed sometime this morning as my images arn't live nor is the host site accessible early this morning.

From what I hear around ST is the service is top notch but I just have a knack of picking the worst times getting things done.

Cheers,
JT
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Sorry you had a problem Justin. I am not aware of any server outage this morning and the server alarms monitor alarms didn't go off. It could have been a temporary connectivity problem between your ISP and the datacenter. A quick way to tell if it's that is to go to alertra.com and plug your website into the spotcheck there. If it's reporting good from all the locations there, it's probably just a connectivity problem.

If you keep noticing it, please submit a support ticket and we can try and help you troubleshoot it further.

That said, the new XEON server we commissioned is online now so I can start the process of getting it ready and getting sites moved to it! :cool:
 
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