If you couldn’t access the Significant Objects website yesterday afternoon/evening, or at other times recently, you weren’t alone. As of yesterday, our web-host had served up nearly 30,000 pages during November, which is more than the combined total of pages served up during the first five months of this project… and that number would surely have been higher if the traffic hadn’t overwhelmed our web-host’s servers several times. (Last month, we served over 131,000+ pages to nearly 18,000 unique visitors, each of whom visited — on average — more than once in October.) So we were forced to suspend service a few times, but no worries! That’s all behind us now.

We’ve moved to a new web-host, and there shouldn’t be any more interruptions. Good thing, too, because this is (a) the last week of the Significant Objects experiment (though, as previously mentioned, we may announce a new version of the project soon), and (b) the week that we’ll announce the winner of the Significant Objects/SmithMag six-word story contest. Please visit us as often as you like…