After Kotaku slammed my server for a while, my webhost finally got around to noticing that 95% of the files in my account were MP3s of large size. They suspended me, naturally. In other words, I got Kotaku’d/Slashdotted/Dugg/etcetera’d!

As cool as that is, it sucks because I essentially had to gut my site in order to get them to re-enable my account. I did some housecleaning and it’s back up with a blog post announcing that I’m on Kotaku.

During the redesign I initially thought I was gonna keep the “put all my music online and then only highlight some of it to visitors” idea going for my website, but now that I can’t keep so many files online (which is ideally where I’d like them), I’m just gonna be pickier about what I post. Right now, Ebben Flow is the only thing anyone cares about, so that’s the only thing up (besides some files of me playing guitar on the demo site). It’s probably a good way, organizationally, to think about my music, because I have attachment and packrat issues with keeping everything I’ve ever done within reach from anywhere, even if it’s not that good. This thins out the advancing hordes that are my prolificness.

Anyway, it’s fucking unbelievable that I got on a popular gaming blog and that, except for a few thousand who got there after the site went down, 10,000+ people viewed the story and some subset went on to my site and saw shit that’s been up there for months, languishing. New life was breathed into it, and maybe the next time I do something Internet-worthy I’ll be remembered since I already got at least one nod.

Also, I shopped the story to a few more sites and still waiting on a few I had already submitted to, so maybe there will be a resurgence…but most likely yesterday was the pinnacle. Gotta take it where I can get it.