Traffic to World Tribune.com has been on a constant growth curve since startup in December, 1998. We have been forced to move to new file servers on two occasions in the past year due to the increase in readership. The successful launching of Geostrategy-Direct.com introduced WorldTrib to a new category of readers and significantly increased visits to the Mother Ship. By late summer, Geostrategy-Direct readers had become a major factor in traffic patters. August was the busiest month ever and caused the good folks at Maximum.html to send us a bill for exceeding our bandwidth quota. But when Chief Technical Officer Robert Adkins reported on the numbers for September, we were collectively dumbfounded.

World Tribune.com on some days last month left several big city newspaper sites in the dust. Thousands of e-mail poured in congratulating our staff for being on the cutting edge and applauding our statement of purpose.

But it also became evident that we had to grow some more. Maximum.html has a uniquely-engineered architecture to handle our success. [See the case study they published on their site with our permission.]. By yesterday, Oct. 10, we had no choice but to increase our capacity. On busy news days, response time may still be slower than ideal. We're working on it. It's only a question of finances. Advertising on Internet sites is down industry-wide. But WorldTribune.com is in the business of bucking industry trends, and not just in terms of editorial content. We thank our readers for their many expressions of support.