The traffic is to my photo site, not to the blog. May be some more traffic to the blog. I've been slashdotted and boingboinged and dugg before. And you're right, what you find in adsense, for example, is a lot more impressions but a lot less clickthrough, so you only make a bit more money.

The temporary server upgrade they are doing is free, in part to be good, in part because they know that because I want to switch to ubuntu hosting (which they don't offer yet) that I may be leaving them. Can't fault the customer service here. As I was saying, what I think hosting companies should do is offer "busting" as a service, either automatically or that the user can ask for and pay for, without having to buy a whole new server.