Why PCMech Was Sluggish Yesterday
Some may have noticed that PCMech was slower to respond yesterday than usual. Here’s why:
That is what they call, in technical terms, a big-ass traffic spike. In other terminology, it was a Digg Effect from our article Why Use Linux? getting onto the homepage of Digg and basically coming in as the #8 most popular article on Digg yesterday.
As you can see, that post brought in around 4X our normal daily traffic to PCMech.
Well, now you know. Well done to Jason Dyok, the author of that article.
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