First, I want to welcome you to Son of Citation Machine (SOCM). It’s been exciting to finally get this baby out, and, as is often the case, it’s birth has been rocky. At the same time, it happened at exactly the right time. It’s the end of the semester, and Citation Machine is serving more than a half-million page views a day.
So what’s different about SOCM that helps with all this traffic. Mostly the software is much simpler. I reprogrammed most of the site so that the information involved in a citation comes from a database, so that Citation Machine just simply gets the format, plugs in the information, and then displays it for you to copy and paste.
Even with these economizing efforts, Citation Machine is threatening to bring down many of the other sites served by my hosting company. So I have been further economizing, at the same time that the technical folks at Dreamhost (my hosting company) have also enacted (heroic) measures to keep the service going.
I’m going to close now, by saying that I appreciate all of your suggestions. You have given me new ideas for further enhancing SOCM. More about that later.