If you had any trouble getting to this site in the last few days, it may be because I got "dugg" a little.

I wrote a post Sunday afternoon, submitted it to digg, went to bed and woke up to find my submission on digg's home page and in the digg XML feed.

This translated to the following traffic spike on my site, as far as Alexa was concerned.

Zero to huge to zero in 72 hours..

~300 in per 1 million. Which if I got 12,000 unique users translates to a pool of ~40 million internet users?

Google Analytics told a similar story.

I'm Somebody! I'm Somebody! I'm... damn... nobody...

It translated to 12,000 unique visitors in 48 hours which is in two days as much traffic as I normally do in two months. At maximum 'digg effect' the site was serving 200MBytes per hour, probably as people explored the main feed which has lots of diagrams and images in it.

Every time I went to view the post it was still up, which is not surprising because that number of requests only really translates to 4 views per minute, assuming that most of the other static elements are coming out of net-cache servers somewhere.

Not exactly Earth shattering load for a Dual PIII 500Mhz machine with 750M of RAM.