My two years old blog post made the front page on reddit: http://adblockplus.org/blog/anatomy-of-ads
Right now it is number 7 on reddit and apparently stayed somewhere around that position for the last 14 hours. The blog post had 24 comments in 10 hours (when I checked my mail this morning I thought I am being spammed) and the current visitor rate is several times the usual number. Consequently, the load levels are around 0.20 which is a relatively high level but there is still plenty of room and the response time doesn't seem to be higher than usually (according to the monitoring service the response is occasionally delayed by up to 100ms compared to the usual numbers, this seems to come entirely from the database which needs to process more requests than usually). So big thanks to reddit for allowing me to check the resource reserves of my server, apparently those are plenty
Reddit is stress-testing Adblock Plus server
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Looks like you also have this:
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/02/ ... han-sorry/
... which was the first story posted on Foxiewire.
Looks like you are popular today, Wladimir
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/02/ ... han-sorry/
... which was the first story posted on Foxiewire.
Looks like you are popular today, Wladimir
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it"
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Despite my utmost respect for Foxiewire, it doesn't generate 5000 clicks per hour ;)
I agree ... but every little bit helps.
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it"
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Oh, I don't say it doesn't help - the attention coming from fligtar's blog post is certainly worth a lot more than reddit users who will be gone the minute the link disappears from the front page. But fligtar won't help me stress-test the server.
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On an unrelated note, Macworld named Adblock Plus as one of the best add-ons for Safari and Firefox.
What, me worry?
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Have a link? I wonder what exactly "for Safari" means.
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Btw, everything is back to normal again. "Anatomy of ads" blog post has been viewed more than 60000 times. The effect on Adblock Plus downloads: zero.
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Don't have a link, but I saw it in the March 2009 issue of Macworld. Here's a list of the add-ons:
- 1Password
Adblock Plus
Cooliris
CosmoPod
CustomizeGoogle
DeliciousSafari
Download Statusbar
Fast Dial
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
GooglePreview
Inquisitor
PithHelmet
Quartz PDF Plugin
Read It Later
SafariDockStatus
SafariStand
Stumbi
StumbleUpon
Surf Canyon
Tab Mix Plus
Web Snapper
What, me worry?
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Yes, that's pretty common. c't 4/2009 for example has some "essential" applications on a DVD - including Firefox and five add-ons (GreaseMonkey, Flashblock, Adblock Plus, Firebug, DOM Inspector).