Before the WTC attack we was getting 3 daily sign up (average).
After that, stoped completely for 3 days, and now, we get 1 sign up or zero daily.
This is happen to all? or just to us?

It slowed down for us as well, but it's starting to pick up again. There is another thread on here somewhere that has people claiming a big boom in sales. I dunno... :)

It slowed down about 60% on the 11th and then picked right back up on the 12th ...

Lucky you
It's still slow to us :(

Things slowed down for a while and then all of a sudden I got flooded.

My sales for this week have been 0 as I had to pull my signup page down because I've got no space left on my current servers and the new server I ordered last week is being delayed because of this NY thing :bawling:

Yup,

I've been slow too. From 15 a day down to zero. It is slowly increasing though. I think I got about 8 today, so it is on the way back now.

Not just the attack but with sooooo many additional people now being layed off, things overall will slow down too. :(

Our site traffic dipped heavily on the 11th and is only just recovering to pre 11th levels. Unbelievably two advertisers contacted us last week to ask what the reason was for the slowdown? Both we're US companies based in CA.

Same thing here James :(

The implication of the terrorist attacks on the web hosting market.
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In short and overall, the coming months could be the time when we will see an interruption in consumer spending and yet a surge in demand for security and web hosting services.
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The September 11 attack that destroyed the World Trade Center shocked the world. Hoping to keep the markets running and the economy from heading for global recession, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point on Monday morning, September 17.

What happens next in the U.S. economy, in turn, will inevitably affect the Internet industry and web hosting market outlook.

Last week's terrorist attacks have channeled millions of people throughout the world to seek and find out on the Internet what actually happened. Not surprisingly, after recovering from an initial state of shock, the public is becoming nervous and this eventually will affect buying behavior.

Both consumption and investment could be put on hold as people reassess the situation. This possibility is especially significant when the recession has already led to layoff announcements and hit part of the global economy. And with the recent destructive Nimda worm that has plagued the Internet since 9am EDT on Tuesday, September 18, Internet connectivity for many users is extremely slow and thousands of websites have been knocked offline. The U.S. economy may be entering uncharted waters.

Nevertheless, despite the slump in the Internet economy and the recent disaster in the US, hosting services are still required, and companies are all the time using these Internet services to communicate and conduct commercial activities. The importance of Internet services can be seen during this terrorist attack, when millions turned to the Internet to reach family and friends, to get relief and emergency information, and some, to get live market coverage.

A disaster like this will cost massive loss of business data and many companies at this time are considering outsourcing technology and computing operations especially business application and enterprise websites which can be located or hosted geographically at different locations and be accessible from any Internet connected computer.

In other words, backing up data in multiple locations and data centers is a necessity, and outsourcing computing operations with application and hosting providers proves useful and important. The data center is the foundation on which the hosting platform stands. Power, cooling equipment and network connections to the Internet are adequate and redundant. The network architecture within the data center is secure and designed for flexibility with no single point of failure. Such services if deployed correctly will ultimately ensure fast recovery and continuous business operation if a disaster strikes.

At this point in time, to help mitigate the impact of the tragedy, application and web hosting providers may want to conduct seminars, guide and educate companies on the importance of backups and outsourcing services in a secure data center especially when such services are easily accessible and can be maintained through the Internet.

In short and overall, the coming months could be the time when we will see an interruption in consumer spending and yet a surge in demand for security and web hosting services.

the 11th was probably our slowest day ever. i received a few cancelations of pending orders even. but on the 13th it picked back up and in fact the weekend after the 13th was my busiest ever. I have been swamped for a week and a half now.

Roller coaster.

Very busy days last week, and incredibly slow this week.

Ahh.. It's be opposite to me.. Couple weeks ago it was slow.. This week its been busy for us..

Did you guys who got recovery do Advertising or Promotion ?

nope i didnt advertisie. we are still getting a ton of new accounts. more than normal.

It was incredibly slow the week after the attach and then went through the roof for a couple of days and now at the end of this week (which was looking to be a great week and back to normal) just died off yesturday and today??

It is hard to say what is going on...i think there is going to be a little bit of a down turn for high end systems because of budget crunches and the average joe probably wont spend any money either...who knows we all can sit and speculate...we would be like the guys on cnbc who really dont know much either.

September is always a little slow for us, but the week after 911 was very slow. It's picked up again though and does seem a little above average on this time last year. With the lead up to Xmas I think there's always a bit of a shift towards looking at $5 a year hosts for a while. We've weathered that before, and will again this year :) Come late December through early March we always get a bit of a boom though (both hosting and design work).

Greg Moore