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Submitted by root on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 10:20.
BPS WTF (mpbs/time)

Well... we don't really know what to say except thanks everyone for the awesome comments and feedback! Woohoo!!!! While I doubt we can beat this one we are going to make some more videos and we'll post them here. Get on the RSS feed to be notified when something is up. Thanks for all the attention and links from the blogs and forums and twitter. Totally awesome.

On the downside the number of hits we got destroyed my server. So yea, as some of you noticed, The Website Is Down really was down.

For those who are interested (something tells me that's like a lot of you), here's a little rundown:

I posted the video at 1am on Friday, Jun 20. I mailed about 100 people the link, posted it on StumbleUpon and went to bed. By the next morning I had about 500 hits on the site which I thought was pretty good. I started to get a little worried about my bandwidth utilization. The base rate on my plan is good for an average of 200kbps over the course of a month (which is about 2gb/day). In that first day we got over 3500 hits and used over 120gb of bandwidth! That's when I started to freak out (see graph).

After that I moved the flash video to blip.tv and things calmed down considerably. That is until I realized that just by serving the images for the front-end I was still using over 2gb/day of bandwidth. Uh... So I'm waiting to get the bill on this one. :)

Anyway... We're very psyched it's popular. Thanks to everyone who passed it on and everyone who commented.

-josh

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Epic WIN!

Holy crap this was hilarious. I unfortunately work in the IT department as well and this just made my day. I now almost feel justified in the frustrations of this job. Please, please, please make another vid.

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Very funny video. Hopefully

Very funny video. Hopefully you won't have any server problems anymore.

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Daanng! That was a hooot!

Having lived through the late 80's - 200x's IT hell, this hits so close to home on so many levels. I cried I was laughing so hard. Man, I think you guys captured something near and dear to every taken for granted IT worker out there. Like Dilbert, you guys capture corporate culture at its best. Nice work.

Great social comentary.

I can hardly wait for your next vid..

Cheers,

Coryupter

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I couldn't have said it

I couldn't have said it better myself. Coryupter hit it right on the head.

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perfection

This is probably the best video I have ever seen on the internet. I have watched this video at least 15 times since I first saw it, its just too funny. I just now realized that it was not an actual event, I was sort of disappointed after finding this out. Keep up the great work.

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this was almost as funny as

this was almost as funny as http://stuffididlastnight.com

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RE: Almost as funny as . . .

Whoever posted "http://www.stuffididlastnight.com/" is a complete moron. 2nd grade education maximum. Almost as funny as watching paint dry. Get a life you freakin' hack!

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Awesome!!

From a programmer's point of view, all I have to say is:

THIS ROCKS!!

Keep up the good work!!!

Thanks!

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Great Work

Keep up the great work guys. World needs some sites like this. EVeryone needs a good laugh.

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OMG YOU GUYS ROCK!

Your video has GOT to be the absolute FUNNIEST thing I have EVER seen in my life (except when Bush actually BECAME President). The difference is, you guys will always STAY funny as hell. Keep up the GREAT work, we think you are the ballz!

- Paul

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Out Standing!

You people are AWESOME! Fantastic job!

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It's so well done – i just

It's so well done – i just now realized it's not actually „real“ (after we wathced it 4 times)! lol

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Funny ... but sometimes true

This was super fun to watch, Its amazing the human factor problems the IT world encounters!

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Absolutely brilliant. Love

Absolutely brilliant. Love the video. When I'm in a bad mood I watch this video and it makes my day. I'm serious.

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shuda yootubed it dude

let google pay the bill. :P

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Funniest damn thing I've seen in weeks

Maybe I need to get out more, but thanks! Hysterical.

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this is just great

hey guys.
thank you very very much for that beautiful clip. it's awesome and my whole it-department loves it. we were laughing for days. please do another one.

greetings

herb

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This very very funny

This very very funny

website is down

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Absoluter Hammer!!!

Das ist so wahr!!! Das ist wirklich das sowas von geil!!!
Respekt an alle die jeden Tag mit solch einem Wahnsinn zu tun haben.

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Hey man...weist schon das

Hey man...weist schon das den Comment jetzt kaum einer verstehen kann.
Wenn du den Clip verstanden hast, würde ich sage, dass du auch Englisch kannst.
Deshalb würde es wahrscheinlich mehr Sinn machen, wenn du deine Kommentare auf Englisch abegebn würdest und ihn so auch die ganze Community verstehen würde.
Kein Befehl, keine Bitte, kein Beschwerde....nur ein Hinweis.

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Genius!

Genius Josh - thank you for this, may there be many more!

Love the whole Win 98 desktop sequence; doing everything to avoid culpability, in the face of direct questions; taking out frustration on a Halo grunt's crotch, etc etc!

BJ

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NO WAI!!

i can't believe it. so real in so many ways. so much my life and yet simultaneously so daring. well done. i only wish more people would see it our way. power to the programmers!

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THAT was pee in my pants funny.

Really, that was funny because it was almost every telephone call at work I got when I was doing support all rolled into one.

Minus the HALO though and the video of the rack servers...

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Great stuff

Hilarious video. I made sure to pass it on to all of my friends. Hopefully, it won't spike your bill TOO much :)

Keep em comin!

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Thank you!

This is the funniest thing I have seen in years. I look forward to whatever comes next.

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hahahaha

It's so brilliant! Here in the office all the IT area is dying whit tears on the eyes.

Thanks a lot!!! hehe

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Tears in my eyes...

... and all the other people in my office, including the next two people up in the
food chain. I think we will have to use this as a training video... :)

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Funny

Excellent work and so true.

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Funny Shit.. Reboots the

Funny Shit.. Reboots the Mail server too... lol

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stuffididlastnight.com

stuffididlastnight.com is funnier. just sayin

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No it's not

No it's not

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LMAO

This is awesome!

Did you take down the website?
No...
Well Alice said you did.
...
...
Well... yeah...

Please do more vids!

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Alice?

Alice?

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Webdude

OMG this is SOOO funny.. i feel his pain, and have dealings with pretty much everything he did in this vid. Great stuff!!

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Hopefully you don't use dreamhost...

If you do, you'll get like a $800,000,000,000,000 charge and a "whoopsie, stupid us, lolz" email.

But uh yeah, too funny! :D

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Why not host it somewhere

Why not host it somewhere else?

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Hosting situation

We offloaded practically everything we can off our server so it's just serving up the basic html. That made a big difference. I might try to add some of the UI elements back in if things calm down a bit. Thanks for watching!

-josh

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Mirrors

You could provide multiple mirrors :p

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congratulations!

this was an amazing clip!

i see what you mean with "this is a problem" .. hehe..
hope you don't get a too high bill for this ;p

great that you will continue!

blub

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i cant stop watching this.

i cant stop watching this. frickin hysterical!!!

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Gold

This is absolute gold. It actually took me about 2 minutes to realize it wasn't real. :)

My favorite part is deleting the email from the boss's exchange mailbox, LOL.

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I thought it was real...so

I thought it was real...so it isnt real???

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I would love to learn more

That was like the best video I have seen all year.

I just did one myself and it only got 123 diggs and you are already at 950! You guys are good!

I would love to learn more, like how long it took to make this video? The video from the server room - where is it?

Dave
http://www.rentvine.com/videos/coldwell.cfm

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Loved it

I just watched that with my wife looking over my shoulder, she said "she hasnt laughted that much since she first saw me naked!! :( "

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OH SNAP!

OH SNAP!

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Bob FTL!

Bob FTL!

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Please enjoy.