My Sunday morning post about the Bailey court case has fallen off the front page of fark.com, and so traffic on this site is gradually returning to normal. Both Sunday and yesterday were record days for numbers of visitors, all because of the fark link. Some other sites have picked up on the story, and so there will be some additional strangers coming in for a while to read it, but nothing like the 36 hours after the fark pointer first went up.

None of this is really all that noteworthy, except for the fact that the server on which this blog resides performed like a champ throughout the 29,000 page views on Sunday and more than 22,000 yesterday. If I had still been at my old web host, by now I would have been in a crisis, with the site crashing or the system administrator threatening to banish me for overusing resources. Thanks to my good friend at my current host, we just shrugged and went about our business as the traffic spiked.

Bloggers, if you decide to break out on your own server, let me tell you, whom you select to host your site makes all the difference in the world. Choose wisely, as I finally have.