Star Trek fires a photon torpedo at the Net's science fiction search engine, & leaves her listing on fire in cyberspace.

Getting thrown off your ISP for drawing excess traffic is a fate normally reserved for porn sites.

However, when it comes to the strange online world, there's seems to be a closer correlation between Star Trek and Porn than might immediately be obvious.

Because when www.sfcrowsnest.com ran a leak on the new Star Trek Excellent TV series (the one set to replace Voyager and DS9), so much traffic turned up at the Crowsnest that the flood of Trekkies crashed sites across their ISP's service.

As the internet's only scifi-specific search engine, SFcrowsnest.com is no stranger at coping with massive amounts of users turning up, but the feeding frenzy for details of the new Trek series surprised even them.

"Our servers were like a Ferengi merchant getting kicked to death by a pack of Klingons," said John Random, the Production Manager for Crowsnest Media Group. "It was a bad day for our system to die."

The well known New Jersey-based hosting outfit that held the contract for looking after the search engine grew increasingly desperate as their other customer's sites melted into puddles of silicon under the Trekkie bombardment.

Eventually the ISP's shields failed and they had to eject www.sfcrowsnest.com like a breached warp core drive unit & close the sci-fi portal down for 24 hours until the torrent of Trek fans grew bored with trying to access the engine.

www.sfcrowsnest.com bounced back after a day and is now coping a little easier with the fan's fierce demands for Trek-related content.

"Were using two different hosting companies now," said Random, breathing a sigh of relief. "One for the search engine, one for our news and in-house content. Which is a blooming good job. Our support staff were so stressed they were at risk of suffering a heart attack."

"And I'm a software engineer … not a doctor," he added.

Crowsnest Media Group can be found at:

www.sfcrowsnest.com
www.computercrowsnest.com
www.orbitaltradingpost.com
www.sf-fantasy.com
www.searchenginealliance.com


for more information contact
pr@sfcrowsnest.com



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