When the site went down, the proposed reason was because our old provider couldn't handle our load. On a wave of popularity spawned by an increase in the oil price, we attracted new viewers at an exponential, almost plague-like rate. Eventually we had grown so fast and so quickly that our service was shut off, and without the slightest warning! Indignant, some of us protested (as if to deny our impotence) on the LunarPages webhosting forum, whilst other more industrious (O Lord, thank ye for them!) folk worked to find a technological solution to the problem at hand. I think just about everyone sent a digital prayer to our peakoil.com gods (admins). And I know I always had faith that human ingenuity would prevail.
Does anything here strike you as a little bit hypocritical??
Instead of yelling at our providers...
Instead of seeking technological solutions...
Instead of prayers or faith...
As good peakers, surely we should have respected the limits to growth, and voluntarily implemented a deregistration lottery, whereby some members, chosen at random, voluntarily have their IP permanently blocked, so that other less knowledgable folk, who stumble upon us on the net, are able to join and learn more about oil depletion, without overloading the carrying capacity of our provider...
Alternatively, as good peakers, perhaps we should have respected the carrying capacity of our provider, and sought a voluntary aggreement among members to frequent the site less and less in proportion to the new members we attract. We could even implement a system of 'transmissions trading' whereby members who don't use there peakoil.com access credits over a period can trade them with members who wish to access more often...
I think this could be a lesson as to how we should expect ourselves to react as peak arrives.
Perhaps my little feeling is guilt?
More likely, it's just peak oil withdrawal...
Perhaps we should be thankful that our limit to growth was political on this occasion...
