# Big traffic for the Onion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-traffic-for-the-onion/84348>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 28, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-traffic-for-the-onion/84348 "2001-09-28T17:44:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-traffic-for-the-onion/84348/1 "2001-09-28T17:44:10Z")

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[http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB1001692550644119600.htm](http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB1001692550644119600.htm)

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> The number of people visiting the site on Wednesday hit 399,791, “which is an all-time high for us,” Mr. Dinkelmann noted. The previous peak was 272,599 visits, for the issue that ran the week after November’s presidential election.
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> Like overloaded Web sites for its serious brethren, the Onion had to boost server capacity and temporarily strip off advertisements to keep up with demand for pages. Mr. Dinkelmann said the site usually tops out around 14MB, but on Wednesday the traffic required 29MB of capacity. To help speed access, the Onion pulled all the ads off the site temporarily on Wednesday and again, briefly, on Thursday, when traffic remained heavy.

Maybe _that’s_ why I had such a hard time getting the articles!

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**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-traffic-for-the-onion/84348/2 "2001-09-28T17:46:26Z")

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No kidding.

And please keep the advertisements off - that’s a good thing. Well at least the popups.

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-traffic-for-the-onion/84348/3 "2001-09-28T20:18:13Z")

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Yeah, I wasn’t able to get the articles until late Thursday night. Quit bogarting the Onion, you guys! (I liked the Buddy Lee ad though, heh heh.)

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**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-traffic-for-the-onion/84348/4 "2001-09-28T20:27:46Z")

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Or, you could just live in Madison, and pick up the paper issues for _FREE_!

::sticks thumbs in ears, waves fingers, and makes faces at the rest of the country::