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Sorry

November 9th, 2003 · 16 Comments

I really really don’t want to do this but I don’t see an alternative. The Street Writing has been hugely popular and I am so grateful to everyone who visits the project and links to it and emails me in support.. but.. my host has been sending me notices that depending on my bandwith used by the end of this billing cycle I’m going to end up paying between $100 and $800+ in overage fees. The day that the page was featured on Gawker it got over 1,200 hits and since then a ton of sites have linked to it. Yesterday the Street Writing page, not counting hits to any other page on my site, got 2,500 hits. And it was a Saturday, not even a week day. I love the attention, but I can’t pay $800 for it. So I’m going to take the page down til the end of the cycle.. and then put it back up and see what happens. Sorry. Believe me, I really *do not* want to do this but I don’t know what to do. If you have any suggestions let me know..

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