No this is not Über Desi taking a hard right turn and embarking on a Sarah Palin lovefest. Our regular readers are probably aware of this – Über Desi was down for almost 120 hours over the Labor Day weekend !!!! The reason, GOP Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.
This former mayor of a small town in Alaska takes Über Desi a hearbeat away from oblivion
We @ Über Desi seem to have developed this knack of talking about news makers before they make news, big-time news. Case in point, this post of the “Hottest Female Politicians” from last year. Cristina Fernandez and Yulia Tymoshenko, from afore mentioned list made an appearance in the Forbes 100 most powerful women in the world list.
It appears the Forbes list was premature, at least at this point for as soon as that list was published, there was a major development in the US Presidential race – Sarah Palin, was selected as running mate by John McCain. There was one minor caveat to this announcement however, the world knew very little about this lady and so naturally, they turned to that fountain of eternal knowledge.
Another little fact about the “Hottest Female Politicians” post is that since it was posted last year, this post has been one of the most popular posts on Über Desi, again thanks to a high ranking of certain keywords for this humble blog at that fountain of eternal knowledge. All elements were aligned correctly, or incorrectly, depending on your perspective.
The sequence of events goes something like this:
-John McCain declared Sarah Palin as his running mate
-Media, and more specifically, bloggers, get whiff of this news
-Media, and more specifically, bloggers, dive headlong into that fountain of eternal knowledge
-Our “Hottest Female Politicians” post and specifically Palin’s picture is returned on the first page of results of major search engines
-Major blogs including Comedy Central’s Indecision 2008 blog link to us.
-Über Desi traffic spikes. Total hits in 1 hour far exceed our monthly averages. So far so good, correct? Wrong.
-Über Desi was hosted on shared hosting, more specifically, Total Choice Hosting (TCH). The morons at TCH, see the spike and attribute it to a DDOS attack, the kind that takes place when you piss of Chinese or Russian netizens and in their infinite wisdom shut Über Desi down.
-By that time, the bloggers are either flying or driving cross-country on their Labor Day weekend vacations.
Long story short, we changed hosting providers and here we are. We do have a small favor to ask of our readers, lurkers and fellow bloggers, please spread the word that your friendly neighborhood desi blog, Über Desi, is back online. After all, it is through us that, at times, you get to hear about the soon-to-be-news-makers 
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