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Yay for us! Now that the psychological barrier has been breached - onward to 200K. (new server first)

ANOTHER SERVER??? Fiance.com is running out of brides, man!

(Passing up that car/baseball vid might have been the biggest sift mistake I'll ever make. I saw that on Fark about a few hours before PM posted it. Damn it all!!)

You know, this could be the key to getting the word about Videosift out. We need guys to start doing more posts to reddit and possibly digging us, too.

Nice job guys

Awesome! And that vid of Plastique Monkey's was great!

Impressive.

I think the system handled it fine. Maybe it did seem a bit slower earlier... not problematic.

How does a video from sift get on to reddit, digg, etc. when the original vid is on YouTube. Do vids from sift often appear on these sites?

This vid would be appropriate.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Champagne

Hey! I'm a minor, damnit! I can't even be legally executed by the state yet! Gimme my Welch's!

how much server power and bandwitch does it take?

PS: lol i meand bandwidth, fun typo.

*quality job, y'all!

Gold Star member firefly has awarded James Roe one published post for this quality Sift Talk contribution.

The site seemed slow as molasses yesterday to me. All day I was having mini withdrawals becuase a page would take 20 seconds to load.

and looris, the costs for bandwidth and servers varies depending on your deal. If you are lucky enough to know someone who works for and ISP or at a data center you can get this stuff fairly cheap. If not im sure its easily around a couple hundred a month for server and bandwidth.

I almost forgot, congrats to our sift overlords! I still like the idea of having the top 15 videos individually sponsored to help generate revenue.

So on map with the dotz on the countries....Why does Iceland have a dot??? Does that reflect one person from Fjordville hitting the site over and over, or the two that are there, hammering away? And how comes they no dot on Alaska?? And How bout the dot in there near Singapore an' Malaysia.....Who-Dat???

Hmmmm. Nobody in Mexico likes us......la sensación es mutua!...Hehhehe!

well done chaps. truly deserved.

choggie, a dot only shows up if there are a hundred plus users from that local, we no doubt have some from just about everywhere at that level of traffic.

Holy crap!
This is certainly a mark of *quality.

You guys rock... Keep up the good work.

Thank you for making my last year less productive, and with about 25% less sleep...

Gold Star invocations (quality) cannot be executed by omnithrope because omnithrope is not a Gold Star member - sorry.

With the service I use to tap the internet (hughes), it is hit or miss, most of the time, that I am able to watch a viddy, without loading it, and walking away for a good while before it loads....can imagine dial-up is slower, but with a copper connection to a high-speeds service, got no problems whatsoever, most of the time. How do folks bound to dial-up deal with slooooow? Can folks with dial-up even use this site, youtube or the others, without frustration and thoughts of ill-will??
I for one, dream of an OBE, into orbit around the dirtball, finding the retrograde piece-a-sheit, and making a shooting star out th' ho!

Hooray for us all.

I think all Sifters (lurkers included) can agree this is the very best web community with the very best content (between videos and commentary) on the net. For that reason, we aren't going anywhere from here but up, up, and away!

*Special thanks to the whole Sift team - Dag, James, Lucky - for making all of this possible!!!

Shouldn't we also thank fedquip, for all his Ho-Daddy ways???
Thnj;p...Thankpks, shit, Thanks fredclip! Damn this is hard....

Thanks to everyone! It's great to see all this traffic =) Means more members, and more votes!

How much longer until we rule Canada?

Dude leave Canada out of this, it's my escape plan from Bushmerica

Well then I think we need to build up our strength and invade Antarctica. Think about it, it's the ideal country - Low crime rate, low polution, traffic is good, stays out of foreign affairs. Yep, the only problem with it is they're all anarchists over there.

Yes and the colds not that bad, you know, its a dry cold..

you see the insulation on mr. manteat there? No worries from him about the cold.

I leave for a few days, and see what happens? Anyways, terrific, great job Plastiquemonkey and everyone! I've featured PM on the Science collective, in thanks for the sift.

analytics?

It's even higher then, as some of us ban *.google-analytics.com, alexa.com, and similar as a general rule (along with generally not running untrusted javascript and such).

Your apache logs (if that "Apache/1.3.37 (Unix)" is to be believed) are probably more accurate...

codenazi, we run several other sites off of our sever. So analytics is the only good way to get vs specific info

Last night, I posted a comment on /. about Loudness War video related to a story on it. Hopefully, that will get hit big time.

"cat /var/log/apache/access_log | grep /myscript.php | wc -l" or similar incantations (that is, filter the logs...)

Most modern (moving to 2.0 is useful) versions let you split the logfiles by vhost as well, which is nice and accurate.

My point, though is google-analytics is not accurate either.

we know, but it takes all of the stats management off our plate. Those log files get pretty large pretty quickly. We know it's not a best solution, but it is a pretty damned good one.

So to conclude the geekrant portion of this conversation, that means if, say, 2% of your users are blocking Analytics, then the day you hit 98,000 you were actually hitting 100,000.

Congrats anyway.