FYI

For all of you political consultants who want to build a campaign web site I offer this reason for using my host, NearlyFreeSpeech.Net: Frequently Asked Questions:

What happens if I get slashdotted?

A “major slashdotting” of a site hosted on our service will cost you (on average) about $10, one time. The best part about that is that as soon as it’s over, your costs go back to normal. There’s no higher-tier pricing to get permanently pushed into, and we won’t cancel you for having something to say that people actually want to hear.

This happens to one of our members about once a week, so you can bet we know how to handle it. Or rather, our systems do. Our load-adaptive clustering technology is at its best when handling demand surges, and our pricing is at its best when you’d prefer not to be billed like that the rest of the time.

And if you’re quick, you can make this experience even cheaper than our standard $1 / 1GB rate: We also offer the option of purchasing a discounted quantity of bandwidth, called a “Bandwidth Bucket,” which could be useful if you find out about the traffic surge in time. This option can be exercised for as little as $5 and last as little as a day or as long as a year, and can save you anywhere from 10 to 75% of the cost of bandwidth for the selected time period.

On lefty blogs being “slashdotted” means getting a link from Atrios or another major A-list blog.

Most hosts put limits on your bandwidth usage, and if you exceed it, they shut you down, which is not a good thing just before election day.

Update: Sorry, this is the problem I’m referencing.