You might remember this site from the waves it made a few weeks ago at social news sites. It was a seemingly useful experiment meant to compare the uptime of several inexpensive hosting providers when faced with a flood of traffic. Dubbed the "Web 2.0 Effect: Which Host Will Survive?", a term they invented to group the sort of traffic rush you get from being featured on sites like Slashdot and Digg, the experiment looked to be a useful reference for anyone getting started with paid website hosting. The experiment relied on being flooded with traffic, and that they were ...
I realized just today that I've been religiously linking stories to my del.icio.us account for months now and never actually did much with all of that data. I mainly started using del.icio.us to serve as an easy way to share notable stories with my friends, but it's now evolved to the point where I basically just use it to drop breadcrumbs around the net. If I find something interesting that I want to refer back to or read later, my mouse goes straight to my del.icio.us button in Firefox.
I thought it would be interesting to do a bit ...
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