"We love the iraqi information minister" website is back (almost)

Il sito messo in piedi per esaltare le tragicomiche gesta del Ministro dell'informazione iracheno (la sua frase preferita, "We are in control", è finita anche sulle t-shirt) nelle scorse 36 ore è stato letteralmente preso d'assalto dai netsurfer: una media di 4.000 accessi al secondo, che hanno reso irraggiungibile l'URL http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/.



Ora i ragazzi hanno deciso di spostare il sito su di un server dedicato, e promettono di essere nuovamente on-line nel giro di 24 ore.



Nel frattempo, questo è il testo che si può leggere sul vecchio server:

Due to overwhelming support for  welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com. We will be bringing it back on a brand new web server that will be dedicated to the task of serving this comical view of history's funniest straight man. This should be up in 24 hours from now.

 

Note: from the webmaster

The site was so popular that 4000 visitors per second showed up from around the world and overwhelmed this shared server for over 8 hours until we turned it off in self defense. It basically put a 100 other businesses out of business for a day.  If we had known it was going to be this popular we would have put it on it's own server from the beginning.

 

What started out as a private joke to be shared by a small group of friends has turned into a hit. Check back in 24 hours or so while the internet routers figure out where the new web server is that replaces this old one. The site consists of lots of bandwidth hogging pictures and animations that you'll love once you see it on its new home server.