Last night I wrote a quick post about my annoyance with DeadCellZones.com being down. It wasn’t completely down at the time, but it was pretty obvious that it was getting hammered and it was only a matter of time.
Today I went back to check and see if they had worked things out and saw this image:
A couple things come to mind here. It seems a little bush league to specifically blame Lifehacker for your site being down. Whether it’s true or not, it just doesn’t seem very classy. I went to the site because I heard about it from a friend of mine, not from Lifehacker.
Secondly, you don’t need to admit to your readers that one link gave you 30 times the amount of traffic you normally get. One of my favorite old sayings that has no attribution is, “let’s at least pretend like we’ve been here before”. Sure, it may be true that Lifehacker brought down your site but if you ever expect to get linked by them, or any other high-trafficked site again, you probably shouldn’t call them out and blame them for your inability to be prepared for success.
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