Being Drudged
Anyone been able to reach the link that Drudge has had posted on his site today - Pimpfants? It’s been “Service Unavailable” all day. He probably unintentionally “Drudged” their server. Not too many servers can handle being Drudged. It’s like in geekdom being Slashdotted where the server is overwhelmed by linking to it on a super high traffic site like Slashdot…
**Update 5:15pm - He removed the story from the Drudge Report and now the site can be reached. He probably wasn’t intentionally bringing their site to its knees. As RegoPark noted, he probably just did what he did for a good story. Nevertheless, their server was taken out for most of today…
by Lance - 2:23 pm
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Well, he “Drudges” the servers of friends he wants to promote. I don’t know; as mischievous as he’s been with the mainstream media, he doesn’t really take the offensive with the little people. My hunch is that he found the story compelling and linked the appropriate source.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I found it weird that he didn’t link to a news story about it but to the site itself.
You’re right though, probably not intentional anyway.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:53 pm
This is not the first time he’s linked to a vendor website instead of to a story about the vendor. Back in December 2004 (http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/12/13/20041213_002400.htm) he linked to some “chastity underwear” that Target was selling. That is the one instance I can remember, but there might be others as well.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:28 pm
He does do it now and then. He usually doesn’t let it go long if it’s taking out their server though….