This site was inaccessible this morning for a bit. Why? Because it was getting killed by traffic from this link (update on 12/14: And this link, too). I don’t speak German, so I have no idea what any of it says, but I do know they managed push 10 gigs of bandwidth and an average of 300 connections per second in the last 24 hours linking to this entry. I’ve since moved the video to another server (thanks a ton to Karin, my partner in crime on this server) so hopefully that will make things function a bit better (and make it so I’m not totally saturating a 10mbs connection).
It’s also totally hosed my e-mail for this domain, so if you’ve tried e-mail any address at utterlyboring.com, it didn’t get through, so go ahead and try to e-mail me at utterlyboring [at] gmail [dot] com.
Update at 12:50: Looks like there are quite a few sites linking to that entry. Welcome to everybody!
Update at 3:40: At last count, in the last 7 hours, we’ve pushed 19.3 GIGs on that video above. Amazing….
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Sorry for the heavy traffic. Now your site becomes very popular. The Spiegel article is about the lighting and decorations of houses during the christmas time and relationship with the neighborhood and interactions between family members. Nothing special:-)
Cheers, Ralf
That’s One Killer Christmas Light Display
Be sure to have your sound turned up for full effect. I’m sure his neighbors love it….
No need for apologies, this has been extremely fun for me! LOL! I had a box sitting around with nothing else to do 🙂 so we put the .wmv over on there, & have been having fun watching the traffic. It’s a riot knowing that folks from literally all around the world are enjoying the video! Welcome to UB and hope y’all enjoy the videos. You guys rock!!! 🙂 Karin
I hope I didn’t kill your server by sending that to you in the first place, Jake!! You are Uber popular now!!!!
Hi
just your luck – Der Spiegel happens to be one of Germany’s largest and most popular websites
My apologies,
for setting the link without notifying you beforehand. The article was a spontanous idea, and i was quite frankly flabbergasted myself how many people were interested in it. I tried to spread the traffic by providing more than one link to the video, but that obviously was not enough. I do hope that this brought you a couple of new readers to visit your website though. “Linking” is what the web is all about, after all.
greetings,
Frank
No worries, Frank! I have plenty of bandwidth, just needed to move somethings around.
Frank, you rock! It was a great article. I ran it through Babelfish (as my German is a wee bit rusty, hehe) and I really enjoyed it.
For those wondering, the Famous Video has now cracked 100 GB in four days’ time. That’s pretty awesome for a humble guy from Oregon. 🙂
Hi, I’m from Germany and i think your lighting and decorations on your house is great and fantastik!!!! I think Hollywood can’t make it better!!
Yali
Really cool stuff! :))
FYI:
http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal/282421816395851.shtml SAYS:
With the purchase of computer software, an FM transmitter kit and four light-controller boxes that combine to provide 64 lighting circuits, the display features lights “dancing” to holiday music. (…)
People viewing the display from their cars can tune into “Christmas Radio” FM 97.3 – the frequency the FM transmitter uses to broadcast songs from the computer program within a quarter-mile range of the display, Jamie Loggins said. (…)
The computer kicks the show on automatically at 4:30 p.m. nightly and ends at 1 a.m. The light display will be taken down after New Year’s Day.
The six songs currently playing include the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas in Sarajevo,” Michael W. Smith’s “Jingle Bells,” The Whirling Dervishes’ “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch,” The Royal Guardsmen’s “Snoopy vs. The Red Baron,” Electric Light Orchestra’s “5th of Beethoven” and a version of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” by barking dogs and meowing cats.
AINT THAT COOL!??
🙂
Cheerz,
LX
That’s One Killer Christmas Light Display
Be sure to have your sound turned up for full effect. I’m sure his neighbors love it….