First, there is this in the NYPost:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09262007/news/regionalnews/n_y__gets_a_parking_spot_com.htm

Then this great article on curbed.com:
http://curbed.com/archives/2007/09/26/cool_new_thing_legal_neighborhood_parking_spot_finder.php

If you look at the comments on curbed, it shows the whole story. Basically, I got so much traffic that my host, bluehost.com, decided to block my site. I had a shared (read cheap) account which I had been using to develop and show the site. I had hoped that I would have -real- visitors on the site one day, but was definitely not prepared for the onslaught that is response to press. The lesson learned is 1 visitor a day to thousands may not happen slowly.

Luckily I know people who have thier own servers and was able to move the site quickly (somebox). The site was down for a few hours, but is alive (by redirection) once again.

I got a lot of great suggestions from people using the suggestion form and have much work to do.

Thanks to everyone who blogged my site and was so helpful to me throughout this entire proccess. Now, back to work!

Mike

P.S. Primospot visitors
My to-do list:

• Enable voting or bad data link so erroneous spots can be automatically deleted.
• Finish up iPhone version
• Have the map refresh as user moves away from initial search area
• Make smaller markers for wider radius searches
• Lots, lots more