Comments on: Free PDF Giveaway Takes Down SitePoint

By: Andy_Read

Andy_Read — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:16 +0000

This is certainly a generous offer and I, like 1000’s of others, jumped at the opportunity despite already having this book (and many others) in hardcopy.

But rest assured that the shrewd business minds at Sitepoint are not just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts - they have considered carefully the likely indirect benefits of this giveaway compared to the loss in revenue from projected sales of the pdf and hardcopy book. And in case you’ve yet to download it, let’s note that this freebie contains a heafty ‘payload’ of advertising, which I’m sure has generated a sizeable alternative revenue.

But I continue to love the example Sitepoint set for us all as to how to make people love you and still happily part with their cash :-)

By: Mislav

Mislav — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:51:50 +0000

Let’s all dig this story and take Sitepoint down again! :D

By: Matt Mickiewicz

Matt Mickiewicz — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:54:51 +0000

EC2 and S3 work together.

We’re familiar with the system, as we are using it to host the Design Contests: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/09/03/design-contests-20-to-launch-without-servers/

It wasn’t too much work to move the file over to those servers to ensure that we could meet demand.

By: binjured

binjured — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:41:15 +0000

wwb_99 stole my question. How does it make sense to use EC2 when you’re serving a single static file?

And you should have been using lighty ;)

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:57:45 +0000

One question–why Elastic Computing Cloud (a processing oriented environment) vs S3 (a storage oriented environment)?

By: davet

davet — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:53:13 +0000

Am I the only sucker who bought this book

Thanks Sitepoint can I get my money back now ??

By: simsim

simsim — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:04:49 +0000

Are there any more free downloads on the way? ;) I do own a Sitepoint book (dhtml utopia - modern web design) however i could do with some more :p

Is this the only title you’ve got from SP’s library Doc? So picky huh? :)

By: WineGuy

WineGuy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:42:46 +0000

I concure RE:

“I got it, u guys rock.

cheers”

Cheers! and Thank you very much!

WineGuy

By: Ross83

Ross83 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:45:00 +0000

I got it, u guys rock.

cheers

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:31:53 +0000

Tried to download three times and keep getting file is damaged and cannot be repaired error from Acrobat.