Thu, 01 Apr 2004
What a Week
One week ago today, we put Cobind up on the web. When we did that, there were less than 100 entries on the search for "cobind" on google and our website was dead last. This week there are over 7000.
Distrowatch started covering Cobind on that day. A week later we're holding a steady #59 in the top 100 Linux distros on distrowatch. We averaged 7592 page views per day for the week and our bandwidth usage neared a half terabyte for the night 3/25 - 3/26. I call that getting distrowatched. Michal from Cornerhost called Friday morning and we had to shut down the downloads since they were eating the pipe. The bandwidth charge for that night alone was over a grand. The nice folks at Cometway worked all weekend to get our downloads online for us.
Over the weekend I did an interview with flexbeta. On monday, that got slashdotted. More traffic.
Got bittorrent and some mirrors set up. Many thanks to the very generous folks who have written me offering to mirror. I've had to warn people since the traffic is so high it's likely to sink all but the biggest pipe/rack combination. So we check that everybody's got mod_throttle or the like.
We got donations as far away as Taiwan and the Cobind Desktop CD has started selling.
All in all, not a bad week. Thanks to everyone who has supported us or wished us well. The local business community, in particular, has been very supportive.
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