Down For Two Hours – Server Got Tired From MSN Link

by Tom Royce on June 20, 2008


Had a nice run today with being linked to by the front page of MSN. For 4 hours they linked to one of my stories on the front page in a real estate box.

Of course there is a down side to the story, the hosting company, HostGator, took me down because I was slowing down the shared hosting that I have The Real Estate Bloggers on.

I am not complaining, when you get nearly 10 thousand visitors in 4 hours it does put a great deal of stress on the server.  

One word of advice though is to contact the support guys at Hostgator and ask them to check it out if you get a 403 error. They were great and within 10 minutes of me finding out I was down, got me back up.

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Dustin June 20, 2008 at 2:26 pm

some problems are definitely better than others! ;)

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Tom June 20, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Definately not complaining. As real estate blogs become accepted in the mainstream we will hopefully all face this issue on occasion.

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jp moses | REI Tips June 20, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Gotta admit, I'm jealous. I'd love to have to suffer through that problem with my blog! :)

Welcome back to the interweb.

…jp

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