Interesting how the $6 helped him survive the initial onslaught of new customers, since it would have probably been 10x more writes without this $6 throttle in

Interesting how the $6 helped him survive the initial onslaught of new customers, since it would have probably been 10x more writes without this $6 throttle in place. One of his tweets from that same day contains my other favourite line: > there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you money (Source: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-delicious-to-pinboard.html http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-... )