Here’s a little story for you all…
Imagine the scene, it’s about 1am, I’m ready to go to bed but for some strange reason, I decide to check the stats for my website… Now with the original website of pingu disappearing, I put it on scamcity.co.uk to share with you guys (and people at a few chosen messageboards too)… So imagine my shock and awe when my bandwidth is through the fucking roof… My host allows me about 1gb of bandwidth and I’m scraping by with that (due to various images being posted here and there and mostly at design communities)
Now my previous best day, bandwidth wise, was at the end of October when Rich Baran died and I posted a little tribute to him, that day it topped out at 130mb (which I though was a helluva lot)
Todays not even over and it sits at 1.2GB (total bandwidth = 2.14GB)
How did it get this horrific you ask?
BLOODY FHM.COM leeched the fucking Pingu game off my ass! (as well as a couple of dozen message boards around the world)
They even have this cheeky description
Smack The Penguin
Animal cruelty can be fun!
A true phenomenon this one. Over the space of a day (January 21 2004 to be precise), FHM.com received over one thousand emails asking – nay, demanding – that we include this penguin/baseball bat brilliance in the top 100. Current office record is 593.5.
So my host has left a message for them where pingu used to be (www.scamcity.co.uk/pingu/) and I’ve sent them a nice, yet blunt, email saying if they want to continue linking to it, they better pony on up… I ain’t paying for stolen bandwidth, cause that’s what it amounts too…
The file for pingu is 300kb… 300kb into 1GB is a lot! 3,300 hits, give or take. There was a time I used to get that kind of traffic in a whole YEAR! Never mind a day…
I don’t expect to see a dime, and all I wanted to do was share the game after the original place died (prolly in much the same way as I have)…
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11 responses to “Holy Moley…”
That’s AWFUL! Try using an apache handler to stop it happening again. here.
so how od we play this game i dont care about ur wyning!!geez shutttt up!
Sorry bandwidth issue caused u such a headache. Wondering, did you request permission for your links, i.e. Beagle2, etc.?
Subtle differences between linking to a website, such as beagle 2, and a flash file… Especially from a site with a fan base such as FHM.com, especially as it wasnt meant for public use (though one could argue that posting it in a public forum negates that issue) but I digress… I was expecting a few hits, maybe in the hundreds. Not 3 thousand.
Host a website expect hits.
Offer the file, even at a small charge, and maybe I’ll buy a copy and host it myself.
Apologies from FHM.com. Didn’t mean to cost you your site. We’ve changed the link now…
Still, cracking game. Anyone beat 592.5 yet?
593.5 baby!
For the “How are we meant to play” people – there’s a little trick to finding this game… GOOGLE!
And it’s a pity that FHM is linking to the “short” version :-/
Tied for 593.5 (got a PDF snap shot to prove it) and working to beat it!
ive also got 593.5, got pic to prove it!
yeah i managed to get 594.0 the other day took enough time though got picture to proove it yo guys beat that