Posted by Leveragist
It was pure joy and exhilaration as I monitored the traffic in real-time. Traffic coming in from all over the world.
It felt freakin' AWESOME!
5,680 visitors on that first day... on a site that was less than a year old.
It almost felt like I'd won the lottery, except I'd known it was going to happen. Not with 100% certainty, but I'd had enough confidence it was going to happen that I upgraded my server at the last minute. I'd heard enough horror stories about sites crashing due to an un...