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We hit an all time high of users online at once.

Rumor: He is going to replace Imus in the Morning. :D

Hi Tom:

___There are still some interviews that have not been posted but nothing I can think of could have caused this massive hit??? Canada Discovery Channel maybe? NPR was doing a story that hasn’t been published. A local paper as well???

___Whoops, it looks like someone picked up Teddi-Girl’s Prius record setting thread :)

___Good Luck

___Wayne

I think someone posted somethign on digg and we were guilty by association ;)

Hi Tom:

___Holy smokes; that is an incredible number of guests today and the numbers are still incredibly stupid :D How is the server holding up is my most pressing question right now?

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Have you noticed any issues ;)

I haven't.

Hi Tom:

___I have been running around the site like nothing was going on all morning. I didn’t even know about the hits until you mentioned it in this thread in fact? Nice job on the host and machine choice :D

___See you in chat in a few possibly?

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Hi Tom:

___I just had a look at the Who’s Online with 100 users per page and saw the articles are getting hammered. Those are some huge MB pages. I sure hope the server can take it.

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Found another culprit.

Slashdot has the TeddyGirl article too (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/07/0424220). One of the comments (+5) lists the wikipedia article that has a link farm to cleanmpg.

Hold on tight..

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I just had a look at the Who’s Online with 100 users per page and saw the articles are getting hammered. Those are some huge MB pages. I sure hope the server can take it.


you kidding me? if we can't handle 4 or 5 digits loads, then how are we able to spread the hypermiler love?!?!

The site has been running like hot butter all day. We have not yet begun to log hits. ;)

Tom, great work on tweaking the site so it handles the load nicely. We definitely need to "spread the love".

Hi Tom:

___I saw on the web stats we punched out over 4.5 GB’s today and there are still over 6 hours to go. We going to be ok on monthly bandwidth allotment if it calms down a notch, correct?

___What a day and it looks like it is finally calming down. I hope all the visitors understood and are now placing into practice some of what they read and learned today?

___Thank you Tom, host and dedicated server :D

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Its hip to be green:)
Lets see how long this lasts before Americans get amnesia and go back to SUV's

Rumor: He is going to replace Imus in the Morning. :D

Nappy headed hypermilers? :D:D:D

Its hip to be green:)
Lets see how long this lasts before Americans get amnesia and go back to SUV's

LOL, during my drive today I saw a brand new Lincoln Mark LT, the Lincoln version of the F-150 on the road, with the permit in the back window and no plate. While I'm sure he can afford high priced gas if he's buying a Lincoln large pickup, still, it made an eyebrow quirk when I saw it.

The first time prices drop, SUV sales will go up. When prices to go up, at least a few organizations will tell us that it's now a buyers market, so go buy an SUV; the savings in price make up for the higher costs of gas. (:eek: :mad: ) Happened last time, it'll happen again.

It seems speeding goes down when prices increases - increases when prices are down.

There used to be a lot of compact pickups - why does it seem like nobody is interested in bringing them back?

...There used to be a lot of compact pickups - why does it seem like nobody is interested in bringing them back?

I think they have an image as girlie pickups.
As useful as they can be, and fuel efficient too if properly designed, I think what pickup buyers really want is power and macho factor. Once you remove that there's little appeal. Unfortunate.

I think they have an image as girlie pickups.
As useful as they can be, and fuel efficient too if properly designed, I think what pickup buyers really want is power and macho factor. Once you remove that there's little appeal. Unfortunate.

A few years ago, Doonesbury did a thing on selling the Bradley Fighting Machine to the streets. :eek: :p

I wish Saturday Night Live and the rest of the media would just harp on this stupid obsession with hulking gas guzzlers just to appear macho.

Prius Chat had a thread about a few idiotic guys that put (trying to phase this as delicately as possible) a replica of private parts on the hitch. Not all that many years ago, they might have gotten a ticket - now we have people that lack the decency to be ashamed!!! This along with the driving I see sometimes makes me wonder if America is bent on going down the tubes with idiots trying to prove themselves or overindulging themselves....

Prius Chat had a thread about a few idiotic guys that put (trying to phase this as delicately as possible) a replica of private parts on the hitch.
I've seen that more than once around here. (Remember, we're in Virginia.) While part of me thought, "How immature and redneckish," I confess that I still chuckled. (Remember, I'm from Virginia.)