
I was just watching “House, MD” a moment ago on television, and during the middle of one of the commercial breaks, one of Apple’s iPhone ads, “the Winger”, aired. In the bit, the girl recites her blog’s URL, thewinger.com. I can only assume that led to an uncountable amount of traffic slamming into her site after that. I kind of have a thing for cute ballerinas (or cute girls who describe their blog on national TV), so I wanted to check out the site. All I saw were server timeouts and slow loading. Whoops.
Moral of the story? Don’t announce your web site in an Apple commercial unless your server is ready for the traffic. Especially when you have a pretty face. Ask Justine Ezarik about that one.
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