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I'm beginning to realize that I may have done the right thing by getting my own server and using my cable modem. While I'm limited to about 400 kilobits per second of upstream traffic I get no extra charge even if I saturate that 24 hours per day. I pay a flat $150 per month for that. At 50 kilobytes per second, I can pump out 4.2 GBytes per 24 hours. And I can't be financially ruined by being slash-dotted, whch was my main reason for going this way. All that would happen is that my upstream traffic would saturate for a few days. Of course, right now USS Clueless isn't running anything like that kind of traffic. In its first full week of operation, the new server pumped out about 150MBytes. So I got lots of room to grow. (But I must confess; I get a charge out of looking over at it and seeing the activity LED flicker on the ethernet connector.) In case anyone's curious, the most popular "essay" has been "Beautiful Women". For a while I thought maybe that was because people were expecting to see pictures of babes, and I didn't want anyone to be disappointed, so I added "(no pictures)" on the sidebar. Oddly enough, it was loaded even more after that. (I've underestimated you all. My apologies.) In just shy of 7 days, it's been loaded more than 160 times. "Theory and Practice of Terrorism" is the second most loaded, at about 120 hits. It's also the second thing I've written which anyone has asked permission to mirror, and the first which will be translated to another language. A guy in Israel has asked permission (which I've granted) to translate it into Hebrew to put on a site there. (I'll post a link when I get it.) On the other side of the coin, since Jorn switched his "Robot Wisdom" link to directly reference this URL (instead of the old address) I've gotten over 200 refers from him, making it far and away the biggest source of refers. (Thanks, buddy; maybe someday I can do something nice for you, too.) (cheer) |
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