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A single VPS, and it was running completely un-optimized code. It held up fine.

We get more traffic now on a regular Monday morning than TechCrunch ever sent us. Their influence is greatly overstated.

> Their influence is greatly overstated.

But doesn't being TechCrunch'd help your googleability/google page rank?

Probably a little bit, but they're just one site. Google would never put so much influence on one site- it is too gameable.