January 14th, 2008
Digg hearts Slicehosters
I’m sure everyone and their brother saw these 2 sites last week, given that they were on digg, reddit, delicious and the Hacker News feed at yCombinator. In case your browser was broken and you missed it:
thesixtyone is an awesome new music site allowing users to vote songs onto the front page. They have a great interface for playing songs instantly. Plus the cool VH1 styke pop-ups keep you entertained. James and Samuel survived a massive digg and had a great week of publicity.
Dominiek also hit the front page of digg with his article Building a .com in 24 hours. He walks through the day long process of building Wigitize and people went nuts over the details and new site. There are even updates during and after the traffic wave describing the experience.
Congrats to thesixtyone team and Dominiek!
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM Scott Johnson
Congrats to thesixtyone, Dominiek and slicehost! It’s impressive to see VPS-based sites surviving such a huge hit from digg.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM fLUx
Wow, thesixtyone is hosted on Slicehost? Awesome – I remember it being super fast when it hit the front page! (So good in fact I remember having a look in the FAQ to see if it mentioned what hardware the site was running on!!)
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM anon
My question is, can this possibly be legal? I can listen to any song I want as many times as I want whenever I want.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM fLUx
You have to own the rights to upload your tracks! ;)
And it works like the same system Digg uses to stop porn and stuff getting to the front page – it trusts its users to report and not vote songs which shouldn’t be there.
The system is doing a great job as far as I can tell…
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 AM Craig
Thanks to thesixtyone team and Dominiek! Glad that you did it guys on my favorite host.