Ralph Girkins, president of the 22 year old business recently stepped to the media asking for help. His company ,Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp, whose site is under the domain utube.com, has been under “siege” by mistaken visitors thinking that they are visiting the most popular video site on the internet: YouTube.
Girkins says that his site, which has been online since 1994 got 68 million hits in August, which is definitely an overkill, surpassing even the most popular “DOS attackers” like Digg and Slashdot.
The owner of the company has no intention of suing Google, or YouTube, but he is however asking them for help hosting his site because at the time of the interview he couldn’t even access it (even though I accessed it right now with no problems at all).
Even though there is no law against what YouTube is unintentionally doing, I think that it would only be ethical if they could spare a very small slice of their titanic bandwidth and helped out this company.
How was he to know that when he founded the 1994 that a similar domain would become one of the most visited in the world?
Hmm. This guy could make a killing with ads on his site. Sigh. I guess there are a lot of people who cannot even spell “you”–maybe they’re too hooked on textspeak.
With 68 mio hit and a 0,5% click rate and 10 cent per click that would be roughly 34000 dollars per month … that should easily buy a gargantuan webserver (a normal computer should be able to serve the required 25 pages per second) that can handle it all and more ;-)
And don’t forget a link to the real youtube for those kids who will never win a spelling bee :-)
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