The Difference One Day Can Make
It’s incredible how large of an impact a single link from a high-traffic social bookmarking website like reddit.com or digg.com will make in popularizing another website.
LifeReboot.com recently experienced this kind of immediate popularity, and the overwhelming amount of requests for yesterday’s article caused a traffic spike that crippled the web server performance so drastically my hosting service suspended my account — it was exciting.
It was disappointing, however, to think about how thousands of people were trying to access my website and were only seeing an embarrassing “Account Suspended” error message.
Nevertheless, it’s quite encouraging to know that I have the ability to write an article capable of drawing that much attention to itself. Yesterday was therefore an important milestone in my blogging career — to me, it means that people are genuinely interested in what I have to say.
Within five hours, my article discussing 10 Reasons It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy” was viewed by almost 13,000 unique readers.
I never anticipated my site would become so popular so fast. Barely one month since LifeReboot’s debut, it has already gained an impressive audience — a feat which I imagined would probably require at least six months of writing.
In the past 24 hours, I’ve successfully migrated the entire site to a new high-volume hosting provider. Therefore, LifeReboot.com will likely be able to handle large amounts of site traffic for future articles.
Thanks so much for reading, commenting, and sharing — you’re all helping me believe in my dream.
4 Responses to “The Difference One Day Can Make”
Ever since the beginning your websites have been intriguing and very honest. Keep up the good work bro!
@Carlos
Thanks for leaving such supportive comments, and for making a donation. You’re a good friend and I enjoy remembering how you’re one of my original fans.
I found the article on ‘the computer guy’ one of the best reads I had in a while. Laugh out loud moments. It reminds me of the conversations we had when we worked together. Carlos and I were reading it at the office and were pinpointing some things that must have been from your experiences from your stint at CL (I figured some prison slang was in order). Proud of the site. Now I just need to find time to read everything.
@David
Thanks for commenting on, linking to, and being proud of the site. Hope your day at CL today won’t be too stressful with Carl out for his birthday! Wish him a happy one for me.