Never gonna give you up...

In an interesting turn of events, the rickroll page I host for catching out family and friends has recently skyrocketed in view.. thanks to both my mate who hosts the site (cPanel backend) and www.statcounter.com I can keep track of just how many hits and where they're coming from also.

The site "www.epicwinrar.com"* going with the regular rickroll trend hosts a flash vid of the famous (or infamous) pop singer Rick Astley, singing his hit single "never gonna give you up".


What amazed me thou is that this site, having been around since towards the end of last year has been mainly used on my family and friends, receiving only 500 hits up until the 20th of may this year. Then all of a sudden I logon to statcounter to checkup on it and BAM, the hits are up to 400 so far for the day.

At this stage I'd reached 4.6gb of my 5gb monthy transfer so irc'd ol mate and got him to up the limit to 15gb for me. This process then reoccurs the next 3 days, until at 13gb I had the idea to transfer the flash file over to my googlepages account and link it from there.



Thanks to the combination of the 2 I now only use 2kb when someone visits the site and have added google analytics to the page as well (I like the layout google uses to track page views a little better than statcounter.. but either way both options are free).

Stats can be accessed via - http://my3.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?account_id=1976471&login_id=2&code=9f75a1b23058ea2c88fd5298ce9d76e3&guest_login=1&project_id=3490354

Or you can Rickroll your friends by sending them to www.epicwinrar.com :-D



*(Epicwinrar is a play-on-words meme, meaning epic winner or 'something really
awesome/good/great')