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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
I reckon the majority of the users would have been bots.
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In fact that's not correct. Bots are quite easily identifiable.
It was evening primetime right in the middle of the lunar eclipse, after IceInSpace was mentioned as a source for lunar eclipse information on national radio, and also receiving links from dozens of sites to the eclipse article (the article was read over 100,000 times within a few days).
We 43000+ unique visitors on that day, when the usual average back then would've been about 2500.
1300+ people on the server at one time, within a 15 minute time period (the cookie timeout) definitely set the record!
It was a very, very big day. The server crashed once but Terry kept it ticking along.