From "Founders at Work," James Hong recalling how they prevented Hot or Not from being accidentally turned off: But the Salon.com article was coming out the ne

From "Founders at Work," James Hong recalling how they prevented Hot or Not from being accidentally turned off: But the Salon.com article was coming out the next morning. I called the writer and asked her if she could push the story back, but she said it was a slow news day and she couldn't. So the article came out and the server got slammed. My brother needed the server for XMethods, so we did the quickest thing we could think of, which was that night at 3:00 a.m., we took the site down, grabbed an extra PC--a 400 megahertz Celeron, no-memory-in-it machine that I got for free when I opened an eTrade account--and drove to Berkeley where Jim had a shared office. I remember taking the top off a case for pushpins and mounting it on top of the power switch of the machine so no one could turn it off. Then we put it in the corner under his desk and surrounded it with books, so it just looked like a bunch of stuff under his desk with a little Ethernet cable coming out. And as soon as we turned the site back on, the access logs started flying. It was 5 in the morning! http://wcarss.org/founders/james_hong_hot_or_not.txt http://wcarss.org/founders/james_hong_hot_or_not.txt